Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 09:35:15 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing CTM and SNAPS? Message-ID: <189.821176515@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 1996 22:41:21 PST." <27898.821169681@time.cdrom.com>
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> Hey Poul-H, > > You know those big `base deltas' you make for CTM? The ones that > serve as a jumping-off point for all the updates that follow? > > Well, all this talk of a 2.2 SNAP has me thinking.. Why not try to > sync the SNAP dates with whatever mechanism you have for generating > base deltas, so that on the day a SNAP is produced you also have a > base you can grab over FTP (e.g. don't even bother installing the > source distribution) and jump straight into -current. > > I don't intend to do 2.2 SNAPS very often, mind you, but it seems that > when I do, we should try to maximize their benefit to the hacker > community! Well, just grab the latest ####A delta and all that comes after it. There really isn't any benefit to synchronizing with the base deltas I think, it's just more hazzles for us. But good idea btw! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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