From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 12 15: 0:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD6537B402; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 62A751907; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:00:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:00:18 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Peter Wemm Cc: Trevor Johnson , Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree Message-ID: <20010112180018.J471@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Peter Wemm , Trevor Johnson , Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200101122234.f0CMY9Q78574@mobile.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101122234.f0CMY9Q78574@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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