From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 5 08:21:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA25097 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 08:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hetzels (171-83-74.ipt.aol.com [152.171.83.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA25078; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 08:20:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Frank Volf" , Cc: "Stable" Subject: Re: CTM patch level added to newvers.sh Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:18:32 -0500 Message-ID: <01bcd1a1$f152b340$4a53ab98@hetzels> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----Original Message----- From: Frank Volf Newsgroups: list.freebsd.stable To: Hetzels@aol.com ; nate@mt.sri.com Date: Sunday, October 05, 1997 9:39 AM Subject: Re: CTM patch level added to newvers.sh >In article <971004143220_-729141990@emout19.mail.aol.com>, > wrote: >>In a message dated 97-10-04 14:16:27 EDT, nate@mt.sri.com writes: >> >>> > I am currently tracking 2.2-STABLE and use the following patch to newvers.sh >>> > to have my kernel indicate what CTM patch was used to create it. >>> >>> We need a solution that isn't specific to the transport medium, or in >>> more specific terms a solution that works irregardless of how you got >>> the bits. >>> >>I agree. >> >>One method I would like to see is that the .ctm_status file becomes a >>permanant part of the src tree. (Why?) Because CTM deltas are created at >>least once every day. > >Yes and that is exactly the problem with this solution. If I sup the CVS >tree then some rcs deltas may (and will) be added to the tree that are not >yet noticed by CTM. In other words, during one day a sup would give me >different versions of the source tree, all with the same CTM delta version. >And since people are building 'releases' from the CVS tree (instead of >ftp'ing them) this is not good. > Actually, according to the handbook on CTM http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook239.html#ctm ) "You will need to transfer up to four deltas per day". This suggest that CTM deltas are created every 6 Hours. And Thus if you sup at 4 different times during the day, you will get at least 4 different versions. Now, if you sup between the 6 hour delta creations, then you will get different versions with the same CTM value. How fine, do you want it? Scot.