Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:20:01 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blas, eispack, linpack need new MASTER_SITES Message-ID: <97Apr2.152002pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 97 17:49:07 PST." <33430C93.20BA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> wrote: >This >packages ALL need severe maintainance: The original porters downloaded >bazillions of .Z files while they could have downloaded a single .tar >file with the .Z files. (The netlib maintainer packs things in a weird >manner. The .tar file would have both the .Z and the .gz files, right? I'm not sure that doubling the size of the distfile is a big win (although fetching all those little files does suck). Plus, making the FTP server tar up the files for you means that path information gets into the tarball, which can be bad if different master sites have different paths. I did a little bit of stuff on these 3 ports, giving them new MASTER_SITES and cleaning up their Makefiles a little, but if you want to change the distfile fetching maybe I can just send you my diffs as a starting point. Bill
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