Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:42:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000212184249.D42371@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000212161556.D51878@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:56PM -0800 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>
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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
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