Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:00:18 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree Message-ID: <20010112180018.J471@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <200101122234.f0CMY9Q78574@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSI.4.30.0101121134001.24868-100000@blues.jpj.net> <200101122234.f0CMY9Q78574@mobile.wemm.org>
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Have you noticed that we include the ports tarball on CDROMs and the ftp > server? If somebody really wants to get an old port to build on a 2.x > system, they are *far* better off grabbing the ports tree from the release > in general. I agree. > I have a copy of everything that was deleted sitting on freefall in a > .tar.gz. I really really do not want this cruft to go back into > /home/ncvs/ports, but as a compromise how about leaving it extracted > elsewhere? Perhaps even /home/ncvs/oldports ? That avoids the > wasted time multiplied by the number of cvs updates multiplied by the > number of developers, but still leaves it within reach IF necessary. Sounds good to me. Making sure it is accessible via cvsweb is a must. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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