From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 10:59:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D922816A41F for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 10:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA9413C469 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 10:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HrXFa-0004OQ-DU; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:42:27 +0100 Received: from cse-jg.cse.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.12.37]:64432) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrXFW-0001eN-Dr; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:42:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:42:22 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Ivan Voras In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070525113853.S79178@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20070525074925.GA19294@uk.tiscali.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-ILRT-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ILRT-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.033, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, AWL 1.40, TW_SV 0.08) X-ILRT-MailScanner-From: jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -0.8 X-Spam-Level: / Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Subversion for binary distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:59:01 -0000 On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > Brian Candler wrote: > > Here's a wacky idea - I don't know if anyone's considered it before. > > > > Suppose you checked a full *binary* FreeBSD distribution into Subversion > > (that is, untar all the distribution bundles and then svn import) > > > Is there any value in pursuing this idea? > > Unless performance problems arise when there are several versions of > the ~~300 MB tree (for the base system) in the repository, this is > actually a nice idea! Using fsfs I've done something similar. The major problem I had was that "large" transactions (revisions) tended to slow any operations that had to hunt through them to a crawl. Not completely sure that svn is the right vc tool for that, but with the "right" one it's an interesting approach. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Usenet: The separation of content AND presentation - simultaneously.