From owner-ctm-announce Thu Jul 19 15:34:46 2001 Delivered-To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D87237B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010719223442.SRRR16470.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:34:42 -0700 Message-ID: <3B576081.AB4CFAF3@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:34:41 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org Subject: CTM mirrors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I feel it is time to say a bit about what is happening. I am the owner of the computer that generates the CTM delta's. Chuck who has been managing CTM is not able to manage it right now. So I have taken it upon myself to try to keep it working. Last week the computer had a serious disk crash, which has now been fixed. This was the reason for the last delay. Now, I am trying to persuade the various FreeBSD mirrors to update their mirrors. The response I am getting is "why do people use CTM when there is CVSUP"? Here is an edited excerpt from a message I got in response when I sent a message to freebsd-hubs: ..... as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what CTM is and who uses it. since you appear to.. o what is it ? o where is the "master" site ? o how much disk space does a full current CTM archive require ? o how does one mirror it ? rsync ? o how does one make it available to end users ? (plain old http/ftp?) o why would someone need access to it over the CVSup tree ? ....... So if you chaps could help me out with the public relations, I would really appreciate it. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe ctm-announce" in the body of the message