Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:13:03 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.Net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... Message-ID: <199703302213.QAA19882@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:33:50 %2B0100." <199703270833.JAA07304@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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jhs@freebsd.org said: > Hi, Reference: > From: dkelly@hiwaay.net ...which brings up another > question. I've occasionally wondered how to genera - te one of these > myself, wanting to roll my accumulated CTM's into an *Empty* - or > *A*. Finally settled on exploding my CTM's into a brand new > directory, the - n tar'ing that and deleting the accumulated CTM's. > I discussed this sort of thing with Poul-Henning maybe 6 months ago, > he pointed out (a) if it's a gzipped ctm archive rather than a > tar.gz, it takes up slightly less room (I confirmed this locally) > (b) the ctm archive has inbuilt md5's so is more resilient (than a > tar archive that might get damaged), I may have his ideas slightly > wrong, but whatever, he convinced me :-) Yup. I've noticed my tar.gz's are bigger than the same CTM. So back to the beingings, "How do I make my own CTM's?" Did somebody answer this and I missed it? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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