From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 1 7:46:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2C737B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:46:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f51Ekj507258; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:46:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Ernst de Haan Cc: Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? In-Reply-To: <20010601122750.A15514@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Message-ID: <20010601103008.A4448-100000@blues.jpj.net> 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 > Wouldn't it be a good idea to modify the ports system to support a gzipped > pkg-plist file, and perhaps others too? I'm working on a port for the JDK 1.2 > documentation, and the pkg-plist file is 300 K !!! Even if ppl would not > install this port, the 300 K would still be used. > > We could decrease the space needed for the ports collection dramatically, > without sacrificing any i-nodes. Hi, Ernst. By doing some extra work, you can generate the packing list in a pre-install target. Many of the ports I maintain (see http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/trevor@freebsd.org.html ) work this way. The www/linux-netscape6 port is a good example of one where space was saved: the pkg-plist was 101446 bytes, and I've replaced it with 12 lines in the makefile. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message