Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 12:42:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960519123729.1437A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199605170421.WAA06771@rover.village.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 16 May 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > Err, ummm, ctm provides me with up to the last four hour update copies > of the development tree. And I have my email setup to automatically > apply it, so it is no muss, no fuss. Easily more up to date that sup > ever was for me. I resisted for a long time going to ctm because I > thought it wouldn't give me the access that sup gave me. It has > worked 1000% better than sup ever did for me. This is usually > sufficient because relatively little changes in any given four hour > period. Very very true. Additionally the diffs come with a md5 checksum. So only md5 validated CTM deltas will be applied to the source tree. This is an extra bonus ! Another advantage is, that you receive with CTM only the diffs. Sup is simply fetching whole files. A real disadvantage, when grabbing the sometimes over 200k large commit logs ... Andreas /// - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZ77E/MLpmkD/U+FAQGyNwP7BmkUO5pAWMIPOA+oOuYdMTUalPZJEdcq tLiE/3Vz1O+F/EMaEU8+Fl2rrMolHvUFNETB3ZrpDtAMD+LkJJc+19bbhx9bYUzh VZ4NqOJIfapQP+4CCn4rANNmr3dM6UP/fIYkbLYClGsQJ3MWNsQUwrGV56KNVXEP hsMCdtpWRJw= =QmMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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