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Elezine
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 Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject: what snapshots means |
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| Hi everyone, When trying to download some OS what snapshots mean? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure we understand the question. Are you seeing the term "snapshots" referenced somewhere? If so, can you point us to the documentation so we can see how it's used in context?
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tomte
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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just a shot in the blue:
Regarding software releases, snapshot normaly means "in-development-package in the state as of time dd.mm.yyyy hh.mm.ss", so e.g. a cvs snapshot is a tar-ball or package taken at a specific time from the cvs-repository; taken a minute later, a fix or a bug may have been introduced. hmm, not sure if this is clear; anyway, not sure what you really want to know either 
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Elzines
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 3:57 am Post subject: Thankyou |
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| Thankyou Tom, you've enlighten me. |
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Elzines
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 4:01 am Post subject: Example of snapshots I was asking about |
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[DIR] Parent Directory 20-May-2002 12:56 -
[DIR] distfiles/ 26-May-2002 23:00 -
[DIR] gentoo-sources/ 26-May-2002 23:00 -
[DIR] images/ 23-May-2002 16:00 -
[DIR] releases/ 08-May-2002 16:36 -
[DIR] snapshots/
Here we are, snapshots!!! |
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tomte
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Example of snapshots I was asking about |
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| Elzines wrote: | [DIR] Parent Directory 20-May-2002 12:56 -
[DIR] distfiles/ 26-May-2002 23:00 -
[DIR] gentoo-sources/ 26-May-2002 23:00 -
[DIR] images/ 23-May-2002 16:00 -
[DIR] releases/ 08-May-2002 16:36 -
[DIR] snapshots/
Here we are, snapshots!!! |
can't help you there, under /usr/portage I have distfiles, none of the remaining; maybe I missed an upate...nope, latest port`ge installed...
*shrug*, more input  , what is the parent dir?
anyway, it will be what I tried to explain...*g*
regards,
tom |
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