From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 30 23:35:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24499 for current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 23:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (phk.cybercity.dk [195.8.133.247]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA24489; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 23:35:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA07047; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:34:40 +0200 (CEST) To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS repository pushed off the FreeBSD CD distribution... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:13:03 MDT." <199703302213.QAA19882@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:34:40 +0200 Message-ID: <7045.859793680@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.