Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 21:29:42 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard Shipping Containers Message-ID: <9576.832393782@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 May 1996 06:06:02 %2B1000." <199605172006.GAA11345@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au>
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> Is the CVS tree available as ctm deltas or is it only -current and -stable? It is indeed available via CTM. > Am I correct in thinking that with an up-to-date CVS tree (maintained by > sup or ctm) you can create any of the supported source trees in a fully > consistent and functional state at a time of your choosing? You are precisely correct. > Also would the only real penalty be extra disk space to keep it all? Right. > Finally am I correct in thinking that at the time of a release (either > SNAP or full release) you could just checkout your own release from your > locally maintained CVS tree and build it all yourself in a reasonably > trivial manner even for a moderately unskilled or semi-skilled user? Yes! In fact, a local CVS repository is *required* by /usr/src/release/Makefile for exactly that reason - it does the CVS operations itself based on how you set RELEASETAG in the make. Jordan
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