Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:05:33 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP must die, CTM for president !! Message-ID: <199502012005.MAA22131@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199502011958.VAA08226@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Feb 1, 95 09:58:14 pm
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> > > We set up a machine, (thud probably) to run a shell script X times per day > > > (X in [1..4]) which does a "make cleandist ; make obj ; make all" and if > > > that succeeds it produces a CTM delta, which gets put in the public > > > area on ftp.freebsd.org automatically and emailed to the ctm-src-cur > > > mailing list at the same time. > > Just one question: what happens when (not if, when) someone misses an > update? (trashed message/mailbox, or they go on holiday and the service > provider can't handle the mail volume). How does the poor sod get back > into step then? A history of these deltas should be kept somewhere, at > least for FTP, and possibly for mail retrieval. Some sort of sequencing > should also be involved to keep the series accurate. A source tree full of > .rej's is a sorry thing. > > Please don't interpret this as an attempt to kill the idea (which I think > is GREAT), I just would like to see it work... There will be two distribution channels: mail and ftp There will be no .rej's because that's not the way CTM works. ctm will not even attempt to apply a delta out of sequence. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)
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