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Date:      Thu, 25 Dec 2014 21:56:10 +0600
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To:        java@freebsd.org
Cc:        glewis@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: duplicating apache-ant-*-bin distfiles?
Message-ID:  <20141225155610.GA80808@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20141211132333.GA41592@regency.nsu.ru>
References:  <20141211132333.GA41592@regency.nsu.ru>

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:23:33PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> $ ll apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.*
>   .. bla-bla.. 	4351965 30 Apr  2014 apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.bz2
>   .. bla-bla..  8309406 30 Apr  2014 apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.zip
> 
> their contents look the same, just packed differently (notice how .zip
> sucks ass).
> 
> why two files?  because `devel/apache-ant' wants .tar.bz2, but both
> `java/openjdk6' and `java/openjdk7' want .zip.
> 
> could we do something about this, so everyone (users, buildbots) would
> not have to download the same stuff [more than] twice?  thanks,

retransmit.  if this problem only looks simple, i apologize for annoyance
(but please explain); otherwise i'm willing to provide a patch.  i won't
tolerate such an abuse of harddrive space and common sense.

./danfe



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