From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 30 11:23:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24194 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24187 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-4.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA26364 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:22:58 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA23117; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:22:51 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:22:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199607301822.UAA23117@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: Narvi Cc: Stefan Esser , andreas@klemm.gtn.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/print/ghostscript4 In-Reply-To: References: <199607301726.TAA22963@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee writes: > > > On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Stefan Esser wrote: > > > Julian H. Stacey writes: > > > PS WIBNI: ideally for those of us with slow net access, > > > ports/ stuff should use for instance 4.0 & then 4.0 + 4.0-4.1.diff, > > > to reduce upgrade fetch traffic, > > > > Well, and even better for those with slow net access > > might be, if the font TAR file names would not change > > with each minor release. The names I'd prefer to see > > used in the port are: > > > > ghostscript-fonts-other-3.0.tar.gz > > ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz > > > > One of the font TAR files has last been changed nearly > > two years ago, the other one has ben valid for all the > > gs-3 releases, and was replaced for gs-4, but applies > > to 4.00 and 4.01. See the following directory listing > > from the Aladdin FTP server: > > Problems like this should be real easily fixable - or will something more > than the number in the filename have to change in the makefile? Sure. But what I meant to say was, that if only the name of a distribution files changes, then we should generally keep the old name in the port's Makefile, in order to reduce unneccesary multi-megabyte FTP transfers. A note might be required in the Makefile, which indicates that the TAR file remains unchanged and thus the version from the previous release will still be used ... Regards, STefan