On 2013-Jan-27 21:54:44 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <step...@missouri.edu> wrote: >On 01/27/2013 09:24 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote: >> Thank you for adding the ctm bits in the page, I'm deeply intrigued by >> possibly solving this problem with bits *already* in base?!! >Suppose you want to keep up with 9.x-stable. Then you look at the ftp >site ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/src-9/, look at the latest >xEmpty file, and fetch it. Then create an empty directory /usr/src, and >then do >cd /usr/src && ctm the-xEmpty-file-you-downloaded. >No need to decompress the file first. >Then fetch from the same web site all the files whose number is greater >than the xEmpty file you downloaded and do >cd /usr/src && ctm the-rest-of-the-files*
I tracked the CVS repo for at least 10 years using a perl script I wrote. It checks the local .ctm_status and then fetches successive deltas until the fetch fails. A second script ran ctm on the downloaded deltas to update my local CVS repo. If there's sufficient interest, I could make the scripts available. At $ex-work, I had an email subscription and had a script setup to run the emails through gpg and feed them into gpg. Unfortunately, I can't distribute that script. >Now, if you want something not offered by ctm (e.g. 8.2-release), then >you need to use svn. Or freebsd-update. The biggest downside of CTM ishat you can't pick arbitrary deltas - you can only fetch the head of pre-configured branches. The only way to get an older tree is to not apply deltas (ZFS snapshots are the best work-around here). -- Peter Jeremy
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