From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 30 14:13:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16421 for current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.hiwaay.net (max21-130.HiWAAY.net [208.147.153.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16413; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:13:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.hiwaay.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA19882; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:13:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703302213.QAA19882@nexgen.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... In-reply-to: Message from "Julian H. Stacey" of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:33:50 +0100." <199703270833.JAA07304@vector.jhs.no_domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:13:03 -0600 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.