From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 1 4:32:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FF537B42C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 04:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.12.16]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010601113251.RAGY4151.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:32:51 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:32:49 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Ernst de Haan Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? In-Reply-To: <20010601131703.B15784@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Then perhaps we can separate the distribution and the local storage format? That's a possibility. However, if the local storage format and the distribution format differ, there must exist some method of converting between one and the other. CVSup could learn how to support locally-compressed files, or a script could be run before CVSup to decompress all plist files and then recompress them afterwards. I'm not sure this idea would work very well, but I'm open to suggestions/comments. The other possibility of supporting compressed plist files (apart from gzip) is some sort of custom ASCII tokenisation (i.e. replace all instances of "share/doc/foo/bar/" with "A" and list this substitution at the top of the plist). This method would enable the size of plist files to be reduced without worrying about repository bloat. Comments? -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message