From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 19 03:58:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA16173 for current-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 03:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA16156 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 03:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id MAA05278; Sun, 19 May 1996 12:45:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01695; Sun, 19 May 1996 12:42:28 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 12:42:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Warner Losh cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199605170421.WAA06771@rover.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 16 May 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > Err, ummm, ctm provides me with up to the last four hour update copies > of the development tree. And I have my email setup to automatically > apply it, so it is no muss, no fuss. Easily more up to date that sup > ever was for me. I resisted for a long time going to ctm because I > thought it wouldn't give me the access that sup gave me. It has > worked 1000% better than sup ever did for me. This is usually > sufficient because relatively little changes in any given four hour > period. Very very true. Additionally the diffs come with a md5 checksum. So only md5 validated CTM deltas will be applied to the source tree. This is an extra bonus ! Another advantage is, that you receive with CTM only the diffs. Sup is simply fetching whole files. A real disadvantage, when grabbing the sometimes over 200k large commit logs ... Andreas /// - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZ77E/MLpmkD/U+FAQGyNwP7BmkUO5pAWMIPOA+oOuYdMTUalPZJEdcq tLiE/3Vz1O+F/EMaEU8+Fl2rrMolHvUFNETB3ZrpDtAMD+LkJJc+19bbhx9bYUzh VZ4NqOJIfapQP+4CCn4rANNmr3dM6UP/fIYkbLYClGsQJ3MWNsQUwrGV56KNVXEP hsMCdtpWRJw= =QmMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----