Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 14:25:40 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: distfile ctm synchronisation Message-ID: <199505091225.OAA16265@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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I suffer what must be a common problem... Perhaps someone else has already had a bright idea how to solve it ? .... - I fetch my ports/distfiles/* aprox once per week (on tape) off a higher bandwidth `proper' Internet site. - I get my ports ctm patches via sendmail, during my brief daily dial up slip. - If I apply any ctm patches generated after the chronological freefall/distfiles equivalent, the make often breaks, as some new distfile is needed. One solution that occurs to me is rather too crude: a mailing list for people who want to receive all new ports/distfiles, uuencoded via mail. This would be unattractive heavy traffic, both for freefall & recipient mail (& rather tedious re-assembling). It would result in megabytes of un-necessary traffic too, viz the xc-[1-4].gz that arrived in ports recently, where some folks already have those megabytes on cd-rom etc. So, Anyone got any bright ideas ? Julian S Munich
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