Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:51:56 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obtaining CTM deltas Message-ID: <386E4CCC.D934AE74@math.missouri.edu> References: <200001011753.SAA01269@gcs.hu>
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MULLER Miklos wrote: > > Hello, > > i'm trying to use CTM and have the following (theoretical) > question: In the handbook there is a chapter about CTM, > which says: > > "18.3.2.3. Starting off with CTM for the first time > > ... > > However, since the trees are many tens of megabytes, you should prefer to > start from something already at hand. If you have a RELEASE CD, you can > copy or extract an initial source from it. This will save a significant > transfer of data. ". > > Ok i have a release 3.0 and a release 3.3. CD, i unpack all the sources, > say from the 3.3 release cd. > Then how do i figure out which will be my starting delta? > i can figure out the last modification time in the source tree > and use deltas from the next day, but i'm not convinced, that this > is the right way to do it. > > Comments? > I never could get this to work. I found a delta on the ftp site that has the word "Empty" in it, and started from there. (Make sure that the directory that you ctm into is empty before you start.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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