From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 2 20: 1:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586ED37B405; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1341mf60109; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 23:01:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200202030401.g1341mf60109@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/vim Makefile distinfo In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" of "Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:18:58 PST." <20020202191858.B30749@dragon.nuxi.com> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 23:01:48 -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:16:04PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Have you talked to the author about perhaps makeing larger patchfiles > > like patch-0-to-20.gz or even patch-0-to-50.gz or something? > > We would not want him to do that -- it would include patches we do not > want. Why would we not want patches? So what if they don't apply to us if concatenating and bzip2ing the whole thing will result in much more space savings than a million separate bzip2ed patches each with their little dictionary to work from and not be able to compress well? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message