FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

[Claude Buisson]

On 10/11/2012 01:40, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:04:22PM +0200, Claude Buisson wrote:
>>> And for the record, they are NOT official snapshots.
>>
>> I know, but:
>>
>> - there are no more "official snapshots" on freebsd.org
>
> This is a problem, and for what it is worth (and as Mark mentioned in a
> previous reply), the end goal is "official" snapshots.
>
>> - anybody enquiring about it on the lists is directed to allbsd.org
>
> For clarification purposes, my goal is _not_ to compete with allbsd.org
> (in case anyone sees it that way), but to provide an alternative
> location for snapshots.
>
>> - the recently created snapshots.glenbarber.us is much more limited
>
> May I ask what it is that is limiting?  If there is some limitation, I
> certainly will do what I can to address it.
>
> Right now, the limitations I am already aware of are:
>
>   - Lack of varying ranges of dates of snapshots to download.  This is
>     really due to lack of space on the machine these snapshots are
>     hosted to hold much more than 3 days of snapshots.
>
>   - Lack of snapshots for the stable/8 branch.  I'm working on this, and
>     differences (infrastructurally) in how the release builds work
>     between stable/9 and stable/8 are trickier than I originally
>     anticipated to work around.  I have local patches to the release
>     build script in -CURRENT that I have been testing to make "legacy"
>     release builds do the right thing, and have had some success with my
>     changes, but I am not yet comfortable committing them just yet.
>     Having said that, I will not upload snapshot images that I am not
>     sure are okay to use.
>

You said it, I have nothing to add.

> As mentioned in my original email, I certainly do welcome feedback.  I
> certainly will do what I can to address any issues and/or limitations.
>

Do not misinterpret my mail: I really think that your work is useful.
And unofficial snapshots are always better than noexistent official ones.

> Glen
>

Claude Buisson