Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:17:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update 2.1-STABLE -> 2.1.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <199607020217.TAA00166@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199607012217.QAA12140@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jul 1, 96 04:17:46 pm"
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> > > As I understand it, there *IS* an upgrade path from 2.1R. Jordan would
> > > know more. However, the original poster asked for a CTM upgrade from
> > > 2.1-STABLE -> 2.1.5, and there isn't any '2.1-STABLE' release to upgrade
> > > from. Also, creating a 'CTM' diff between 2.1R and 2.1.5 would be
> > > *HUGE*, probably bigger than downloading the entire release, so if you
> > > want the new sources you're more than welcome to download the entire new
> > > release and do a 'make world' and then hand-upgrade the /etc files by
> > > hand. This is essentially what the 2.1R -> 2.1.5 'upgrade' would do
> > > anyway.
> >
> > cvs rdiff -u -rRELENG_2_1_0_RELEASE -rRELENG_2_1_0 src
> >
> > GndRsh:rgrimes {215} ls -lag BIG.diff
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 rgrimes rgrimes 11171459 Jul 1 14:51 BIG.diff
> >
> > GndRsh:rgrimes {218} df /usr/src
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/sd0g 158863 127050 19103 87% /usr/src
> >
> > 11MB vs ~127MB for a full src tree, both uncompressed, but compression
> > should still keep the same 10:1 relative size difference.
>
> This assumes that the diff takes into account all of the changes that
> have been made.
It had damn well better take into account all of the changes, or cvs is
serously broken if it does not!
> Unfortunately, if you apply that diff to a virgin 2.1R
> tree you won't get the same tree as a 2.1.5 tree due to
> removal/additions and such.
^No ^Yes
All the additions are there, for example:
Index: src/eBones/README.PATCH
diff -u /dev/null src/eBones/README.PATCH:1.1.2.1
--- /dev/null Mon Jul 1 14:24:27 1996
+++ src/eBones/README.PATCH Thu May 2 10:04:50 1996
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+IMPORTANT!
+
The removals could easily be handled by a list of files to rm, encapsulate
both the patch and the rm commands into a simple shell script.
Note that my file size above is bloated by far more than the rm commands
would add since I didn't run the cvs rdiff with the -q option so that it
has lots of these in it:
cvs rdiff: Diffing src/gnu/games/chess
cvs rdiff: Diffing src/gnu/games/chess/DOCUMENTATION
cvs rdiff: Diffing src/gnu/games/chess/Xchess
> The only *safe* way of doing this is to
> start with a 2.1R CD and build a set of patches from it. Unionfs would
> be great for that. :)
>
>
> Nate
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