src-cur is stuck

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 1/19/20 7:04 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" wrote:
>>> I have restarted src-cur.  The problem is that a huge number of files were
>>> deleted.  I think switching llvm.  mkctm was programmed to reject CTM changes
>>> that huge.  I reprogrammed it to have a much larger threshold.
>>
>> That was quick ! Thanks !
>>
>> Those on either of:
>> 	http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/ctm-src-cur
>> 	ctm-src-cur at mailman.berklix.org
>> 	http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/ctm-src-cur-fast
>> 	ctm-src-cur-fast at mailman.berklix.org
>> will need to 
>> fetch ftp://ctm.berklix.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/src-cur/src-cur.14331.gzas it is 35932628 bytes
>> & the above mail lists are set to (in KB):
>> 	max_message_size = 300
>> I dont know what the max. is on the old freebsd.org CTM lists, 
>> but most likely users of those will also need to ftp.
> 
> PS I just remembered: max_message_size is not relevant to this, 
>    max_message_size does not limit ctm delta size, but ctm piece size,
>    ctm_smail splits deltas to pieces before mailing
> 
> I found another large delta 35405819 src-12.0551.gz
> fetch ftp://ctm.berklix.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/src-12/src-12.0551.gz
> 
> Stephen, possibly you might need to adjust parameters for that list too,
> if your parameters are per list ?

It is a universal parameter.  This parameter is called "damage", and is
the number of files deleted.  Not related to size.