just wondering, will it take much longer? re: CTM down

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

It should be up again in a hour or so.  Since I had to reconstruct a lot of it, 
I would appreciate messages from people as to whether the deltas apply cleanly 
or not (I did do some testing myself, but you never know).



Paul Seniura wrote:
>>CTM is in the process of being put onto a new computer.  I made some bad 
>>mistakes in the upgrade process (OK I ran rsync the wrong way round!) 
>>and it is going to take me a while to fix.  Sorry about that.
>>
>>Stephen
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> Hi,
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> I was out-of-pocket yesterday, saw your msg just now.
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> I'm one of those who need to stay -Current for a port I volunteered to maintain, net/tn3270.  It's the nature of that beast to copy parts of /usr/src then patch them.
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> I can't convince our political firewall ppl to open it up for CVSup, so I'm manually tracking -Current thru the CTM FTP site.
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> They gave me a surplused PC so slow that it can take days to compile -Current changes (for ex. ~6 hours for buildworld, ~48 hours for OpenOffice).  To get some speed, I'm tweaking the gcc options for the p2 that is in this PC.  And I select/enable knobs that aren't in the prebuilt packages.
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> I'm afraid of lagging too much behind, esp. updates for the ports already installed.
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> Thank you very much for your help and for maintaining the CTM system.  I know it's one of those things we take for granted until it is missed. ;)
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>   --  Paul Seniura
>       System Specialist
>       State of Okla. D.O.T.
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