Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 13:15:20 +0300 (EEST) From: Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee> To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Cc: witr@rwwa.com, dlombardo@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990531130709.29931A-100000@ns.uninet.ee> In-Reply-To: <19990531120353N.kaj@raditex.se>
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Rasmus Kaj wrote: > RW> Alternatively, is it possible to have the port tree be essentially > RW> empty (perhaps just the makefile and category directories) and then > RW> just have it fetch the makefiles and make the directories on demand, for > RW> the individal ports? > Rationale for moving stuff elsewhere > > In my (recently updated) copy of /usr/ports there is 4819 files in > */*/patches and 775 files other than md5 in */*/files. Scripts is > another 270 directories containing 522 files. > > Moving this files to the ftp sites would not only mean >6000 less > files to cvsup, but also >4300 less directories (assuming files/md5 > could be moved to pkg/ or the port directory). > > Comments, anyone? Moving these files to ftp requires good automatic means to keep ftp servers updated. However as of today there are no such means available. CVSup is definitely easiest way to keep well defined collection of files up to date. best regards, taavi ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10-412 | fax: +372 6405151 EE0001, Tallinn, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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