From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 12:25:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D338516A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rabe@p-i-n.com) Received: from aposerv.p-i-n.com (aposerv.p-i-n.com [145.253.185.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED6143D48 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:25:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rabe@p-i-n.com) Received: from p-i-n.com (inside.p-i-n.com [129.10.9.21]) by aposerv.p-i-n.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8SCPggk009473 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:25:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rabe@p-i-n.com) Received: (from rabe@localhost) by p-i-n.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id j8SCPbt90331 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:25:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rabe) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:25:37 +0200 From: "Raphael H. Becker" To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050928142537.O33058@p-i-n.com> References: <20050928002013.11564.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20050928053534.GB15395@local.net> <20050928100141.57485.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20050928100141.57485.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>; from lioux@freebsd.org on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:19AM -0300 Organization: PHOENIX Pharmahandel AG & Co KG, Mannheim, Deutschland Cc: Subject: Re: [TEST CASE] Distributing KDE and GNOME dists via BitTorrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:25:45 -0000 On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:19AM -0300, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:35:12AM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > > > > This could be the beginning of a new official distribution > > > medium. Please, help out by seeding for as long as possible. Pass > > > the word around, we want a nice try so grab what you want. > > > > Another nice "medium" would be CVS (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, wine, ... ) > > instead of downloading tarballs :) > > Do not forget that CVS is good for text not binary. So > binary packages (even source tar.gz) are good candidates not to mention > that CVS scares a lot of people off and it's just another option. ehm, what I meant was not to download full distfiles (tons of bytes) for every single firefox-security-fix or minor update, but to have a local sourcetree of such heavy projects with public CVS (pserv, ... ) and use them (with predefined CVS-tags or releases) instead of pre-packaged tarballs (distfiles). Disadvantage would be a lack of security (same like WITHOUT_CHECKSUM on distfiles). But if you have the choice ... Working with distfiles is just for extract them temporary into a work directory, applying some patches against it and do the predefined rest of the work (configure, make, packaging, etc ... ) Having (permanent) local and CVS checked out sources and just copying them into the (temporary) work would save a lot of traffic if a GNOME/KDE/Mozilla/Wine/whatever Update is in the ports. Instead of downloading a new distfile the port might trigger a CVS checkout to a predefined tag or date. Virtually the sources should be the same every time (but not bit-identical like a tarball). > The FreeBSD ports system is already available through CVSup > and through the ports system one can automagically fetch any of the > necessary files. I guess I just know this. Regards Raphael Becker