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Date:      Tue, 09 Jan 1996 14:11:08 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Syncing CTM and SNAPS? 
Message-ID:  <606.821193068@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 04:42:57 PST." <29760.821191377@time.cdrom.com> 

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> > If you make a SNAP based on any ctm source, then it is unnecessary to
> > distribute the source distributions as a part of the SNAP. In fact, this
> > idea could be extended to the regular release distributions.
> 
> Well, there's the `subdivision problem' you yourself mention.  All the
> nice menus for picking-and-chosing in the src tree would go away.
> 
> However, I see no reason why `ctm base' couldn't become an item in the
> src menu, to supercede the other src options.  Now that I've got
> slightly better dialog menus, I'd planned to add items like `All' and
> `Clear' to that menu anyway.  One more item labeled `CTM Base Delta'
> won't hurt!  I'd assume that there could be a symlink on the ftp
> site (wherever that might be?) always pointing to the most recent
> base delta?

It wouldn't be too hard to make ctm understand that only files
matching a certain regex is interesting.

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