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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:34:40 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net
Cc:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.Net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... 
Message-ID:  <7045.859793680@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:13:03 MDT." <199703302213.QAA19882@nexgen.hiwaay.net> 

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In message <199703302213.QAA19882@nexgen.hiwaay.net>, dkelly@hiwaay.net writes:
>jhs@freebsd.org said:
>> Hi, Reference:
>> From: dkelly@hiwaay.net   ...which brings up another 
>> question. I've occasionally wondered how to genera - te one of these 
>> myself, wanting to roll my accumulated CTM's into an *Empty*  - or 
>> *A*. Finally settled on exploding my CTM's into a brand new 
>> directory, the - n tar'ing that and deleting the accumulated CTM's.
>
>> I discussed this sort of thing with Poul-Henning maybe 6 months ago, 
>> he pointed out (a) if it's a gzipped ctm archive rather than a 
>> tar.gz, it takes up slightly less room (I confirmed this locally)  
>> (b) the ctm archive has inbuilt md5's so is more resilient (than a 
>> tar archive that might get damaged), I may have his ideas slightly 
>> wrong, but whatever, he convinced me :-)
>
>Yup. I've noticed my tar.gz's are bigger than the same CTM. So back to the bei
>ngings, "How do I make my own CTM's?" Did somebody answer this and I missed it
>?

Go look in src/usr.sbin/ctm/mkCTM ...

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Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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