Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:14:49 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change in layout? Message-ID: <3F5FE8A9.5010006@jonny.eng.br> In-Reply-To: <20030911030455.GA3493@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030911030455.GA3493@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Ken Smith wrote:
> I have been "asking around" to see if this is possible. They haven't
> said it's possible yet, but they haven't said it's not possible either.
> So, IF it turns out this is possible do you think this would help?
>
> 1) Move the *release* package set into the releases/ directory
> itself, instead of that being a symlink.
Wouldn't this make those who download entire release dir to get
almost 5G? And also, in these times when we donwload ISO images, is
this a problem?
> 2) Move the non-release package sets (e.g. packages-5-current) to
> a new directory named releases/
You meant packages here, right?
I like this idea.
> Using the 4.9 release as an example that means the package set that
> would be placed in ports/i386/packages-4.9-release under the current
> scheme would be placed in releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/packages instead.
>
> The reasons I thought this might help are:
>
> - the releases/ directory continues to be "static" stuff, with some
> clever rsync scripts or the separate cvsup collections available
> you can continue to just sync that during active release times if
> you want
>
> - the ports/ directory will only contain "dynamic" stuff, and only
> stuff directly related to the operations of "ports" (a tarball
> of the /usr/ports tree, plus all the distfiles)
>
> - the packages/ directory (new) will contain only "dynamic" stuff,
> and there will be less of it because the (static) release package
> sets will now be in the releases/ directory
>
> This should make choosing to carry only ports stuff or only packages stuff
> easier if you want to do that.
>
> Is this worth pursuing? They may still say no - keep in mind releases
> are built by different people than the ports/packages, etc. and
> coordinating it amongst all the different people during a time they're
> all under stress (release time...) might not work.
It needs some changes (and I don't know whici), but it's worth trying.
Jonny
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João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny@jonny.eng.br
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