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authorJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-10-16 09:11:22 +0000
committerJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-10-16 09:11:22 +0000
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tree967914e989e34edbdf347c41d220f5b74e8c844b
parent0acf5dcd5b3fb7d66af0c7a4914e4860579ec62e (diff)
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#
# Converted by Ollivier RObert <roberto@FreeBSD.ORG>
#
-# $Id: ctm.sgml,v 1.3 1995/07/06 14:24:56 jfieber Exp $
+# $Id: ctm.sgml,v 1.4 1995/08/29 01:42:33 jfieber Exp $
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
@@ -44,47 +44,50 @@
<p>You will need two things: The ``<tt/CTM/'' program and the initial
deltas to feed it (to get up to ``current'' levels).
- The <tt/CTM/ program is in the <tt/FreeBSD-current/ tree from
- version 2.0.0 and forward (<tt>/usr/src/usr.sbin/<tt/CTM/</tt>).
- If you are running an older version of FreeBSD, you can fetch the
+ The <tt/CTM/ program has been part of FreeBSD ever since version 2.0
+ was released, and lives in <tt>/usr/src/usr.sbin/<tt/CTM/</tt> if you
+ have a copy of the source online.
+
+ If you are running a pre-2.0 version of FreeBSD, you can fetch the
current <tt/CTM/ sources directly from:
<url
url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.sbin/ctm">
- The ``deltas'' you feed <tt/CTM/ can be had two ways, ftp or email.
- If you have general ftp access to the Internet, then the following
- ftp sites support access to <tt/CTM/:
+ The ``deltas'' you feed <tt/CTM/ can be had two ways, FTP or e-mail.
+ If you have general FTP access to the Internet then the following
+ FTP sites support access to <tt/CTM/:
<url url="ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/CTM">
- Ftp the the relevant directory and fetch the <tt/README/ file,
+ FTP the relevant directory and fetch the <tt/README/ file,
starting from there.
If you only have access to electronic mail or are otherwise blocked
- from using ftp, then you may wish to your deltas via email:
+ from using FTP then you may wish to get your deltas via email:
Send email to <tt/&lt;majordomo@freebsd.org&gt;/ to subscribe to
the list ``ctm-src-cur''. (If you do not know how to subscribe
yourself using majordomo, send a message first containing the
- word ``help'', it will send you back usage instructions.)
+ word ``help'' - it will send you back usage instructions.)
When you begin receiving your <tt/CTM/ updates in the mail, you may
- use the <tt/ctm_rmail/ program to unpack and apply them with. You
+ use the <tt/ctm_rmail/ program to unpack and apply them. You
can actually use the <tt/ctm_rmail/ program directly from a entry
- in <tt>/etc/aliases</tt> if you want. Check the <tt/ctm_rmail/ man
- page for more details.
+ in <tt>/etc/aliases</tt> if you want to have the process run in a
+ fully automated fashion. Check the <tt/ctm_rmail/ man page for more
+ details.
<bf/NOTE/: No matter what method you use to get the <tt/CTM/
deltas, you should subscribe to the <tt/ctm-announce@freebsd.org/
- mailing list. In the future this will be the only place where
- announcements about the operation of the <tt/CTM/ system will be
+ mailing list. In the future, this will be the only place where
+ announcements concerning the operations of the <tt/CTM/ system will be
posted. Send an email to <tt/majordomo@freebsd.org/ with a single
line of ``<tt/subscribe ctm-announce/'' to get added to the list.
<sect1><heading>Starting off with <tt/CTM/ for the first time</heading>
<p>Before you can start using <tt/CTM/ deltas, you will need to get a
- special ``base'' delta that provides a starting point for all
+ special ``base'' delta that provides the starting point for all
deltas produced subsequently to it.
You can recognize a base delta by the ``<tt/A/'' appended to the
@@ -110,19 +113,20 @@
so you don't need to gunzip them first, this saves diskspace.
Unless it feels very secure about the entire process, <tt/CTM/ will
- not touch your tree. To check out a delta you can also use the
- ``<tt/-c/'' flag and <tt/CTM/ won't actually touch your tree, but
- only check the integrity of the delta, and see if it would apply
- cleanly to the tree.
+ not touch your tree. To verify a delta you can also use the
+ ``<tt/-c/'' flag and <tt/CTM/ won't actually touch your tree; it will
+ merely verify the integrity of the delta and see if it would apply
+ cleanly to your current tree.
- There are other options to <tt/CTM/ as well, look in the sources.
+ There are other options to <tt/CTM/ as well, look in the sources
+ for more details.
I would also be very happy if somebody could help with the ``user
interface'' portions, as I have realized that I can't make up my
mind on what options should do what, how and when...
That's really all there is to it. Everytime you get a new delta,
- you run it through <tt/CTM/.
+ just run it through <tt/CTM/ to keep your sources up to date.
Don't remove the deltas if they are hard to download again. You
just might want to keep them around in case something bad happens.