14.5.3. Starting off with CTM for the first time

Before you can start using CTM deltas, you will need to get a special ``base'' delta that provides the starting point for all deltas produced subsequently to it.

You can recognize a base delta by the ``A'' appended to the number (src-cur.0341A.gz for instance). As a rule a base delta is produced every 100 deltas, the next one will be src-cur.0400A.gz. By the way, they are large! 25 to 30 Megabytes of gzip'ed data is common for a base delta.

If you do have the 2.0-RELEASE srcdist, you can instead retreive the src-cur.0372R20.gz file, it's only 4Mb and it will take you to current from the 2.0-RELEASE sources.

Once you've picked a base delta to start from, you will also need all deltas with higher numbers following it.