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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