Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:57:36 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@sour.cream.org> Cc: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, "FreeBSD-Stable" <FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM) Message-ID: <199810250757.JAA12650@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:54:50 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org> References: <3.0.5.32.19981024225450.007af190@ice.cream.org>
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Andrew Boothman wrote: > At 14:29 24/10/98 -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > >The generation of the src-<Version>xR<CurrentRelease> delta's are supposed > >to be generated manually after each release by either the CTM maintainer or > >the Release Engineer. > > So these deltas are only created at every release instead of every 100 > deltas like the xEmpty's? In theory. In practice we do not have the resources. (This can easily change). > Would it not be better to create an xR<CurrentRelease> delta at the same > time as the xEmpty delta then you could upgrade to the -stable code easily > by downloading the deltas that then come afterwards as well? Disk space is a problem. > By only creating xR<CurrentRelease> deltas during the release of another > version it means that you can only update from release to release and > nothing in between. True. Who pays for the disk to generate these? > >Could somebody please create these Release Deltas, so that this question > >never comes up on the list again. > > Whoops. Do I detect that this has come up on the list before? :-) Yup. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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