From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 9 05:12:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA08758 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 05:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA08751 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 05:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tZdpW-0003voC; Tue, 9 Jan 96 05:11 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00608; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 14:11:09 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing CTM and SNAPS? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 04:42:57 PST." <29760.821191377@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 14:11:08 +0100 Message-ID: <606.821193068@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. -- 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.