Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:56:41 +0200 From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: tech-pkg@netbsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Proposal: unification of distfiles for FreeBSD and NetBSD Message-ID: <20030403185641.GA83538@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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Hi, I have FreeBSD on my stationary PC and NetBSD on my laptop. Both work very good and their ports/pkgsrc are updated nicely. I have a slow network connection and I built packages I need first on FreeBSD. When I tried to do the same thing on NetBSD, it came out that even, when both BSDs have the same versions of software in ports/pkgsrc, they use different EXTRACT_SUFXs (not to mention, FreeBSD has a bit different directory structure for distfiles). My proposal is: could we, with some additional work, try to have the same distfiles for each of BSDs? This would not only spare the users download time (or work to correct EXTRACT_SUFX / DISTDIR), but this could possibly reduce the need for distfile mirrors. FreeBSD also uses bzip2 compression, which is slightly better, than gzip - but, as we all know, is much slower. I could submit some patches against pkgsrc to have same distfiles, as FreeBSD has. Why wouldn't I change FreeBSD ports collection? FreeBSD seems to be a bit more popular, than NetBSD is - that means it has more mirror servers, than NetBSD - at least, in Poland. I wonder what do you think about this topic. I never used BSD on anything else, than i386 - but I don't think there can be architecture-specific problems, when it comes to gzip/bzip2. Regards, -- Micha³ Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl $ mv /Almo /var
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