From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 12 18:42:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277CD4101; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05164; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA42475; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jeremy Lea Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000212184249.D42371@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <20000212142232.B14775@shadow.blackdawn.com> <38A5BE37.1965CB96@gorean.org> <00021215021001.02300@localhost.localdomain> <20000212161556.D51878@shale.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000212161556.D51878@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:56PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote: > How well does CVS handle ar files? It doesn't. ar files are binary, binary files cannot be put into our CVS archive. Instead we would have to uuencode them. > ie, is a one line change a one line diff... Hope, a one line change is a 100 line diff. > Remember, people need to maintain these, and we do that through CVS. > We *really* do not want to move away from a central port's repository. Agreed. At this point I think Richard is trying to solve something that no one else finds an issue. What he has mentioned so far seems to be a special need of his. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message