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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 1997 05:50:20 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... 
Message-ID:  <28582.860417420@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:13:58 %2B1000." <199704070819.BAA00363@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> Sure, CVS might be superior to using diffs, BUT, big BUT here, using CVS
> will require TWICE the space to store the source.

Life is hard, then you die. :-)

> Maybe I bought FreeBSD 2.2 on CD-ROM, I want to upgrade to 2.2.1.
> Alternatives currently are:
> * buy the new CD when it becomes available
> * download all the binaries
> * download all the source
> * setup cvsup
> 
> IMHP, this is not exactly "user friendly".

And I've called for help in this area for years since the amount of
time it would take me to re-architect all this seems to exceed the
time I have available, and that's not changing anytime soon.
I'm still hoping. :)

					Jordan



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