svn commit: r326408 - in head: lib/libfetch sbin/recoverdisk share/examples/BSD_daemon share/examples/libusb20 sys/dev/led sys/dev/md sys/dev/mn sys/dev/ppbus sys/i386/i386 sys/kern sys/sys sys/x86...

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Nov 30 21:45:33 UTC 2017


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:33:45PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_ed.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_input.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_pass1.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_pass2.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_pass3.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_passb.c
> >   head/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm/ctm_syntax.c
>
> Does ctm in base serve any purpose ?
>
> README file in the usr.sbin/ctm seems to claim that ctm is generic-purpose
> tree diff and apply tool.  But also, near the end, the same text claims
> that cvsup has replaced the ctm, hmm. Does anybody use ctm for any purpose,
> not necessary keeping up FreeBSD source tree ?
>

Apparently, it's still a thing:

ftp://ctm.berklix.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/

with occasional email on the ctm-announce mailing list. The latest dump is
from yesterday.

Having said that, this seems to be a prime candidate for 'make it a port'
if I've ever seen one.

Warner


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