From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 2 15:23:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04145 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA04130 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <18204(7)>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:20:07 PST Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177486>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:20:02 -0800 To: Pedro Giffuni cc: Bill Fenner , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blas, eispack, linpack need new MASTER_SITES In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 97 17:49:07 PST." <33430C93.20BA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:20:01 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <97Apr2.152002pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro Giffuni wrote: >This >packages ALL need severe maintainance: The original porters downloaded >bazillions of .Z files while they could have downloaded a single .tar >file with the .Z files. (The netlib maintainer packs things in a weird >manner. The .tar file would have both the .Z and the .gz files, right? I'm not sure that doubling the size of the distfile is a big win (although fetching all those little files does suck). Plus, making the FTP server tar up the files for you means that path information gets into the tarball, which can be bad if different master sites have different paths. I did a little bit of stuff on these 3 ports, giving them new MASTER_SITES and cleaning up their Makefiles a little, but if you want to change the distfile fetching maybe I can just send you my diffs as a starting point. Bill