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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: unification of distfiles for FreeBSD and NetBSD
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Michal Pasternak wrote:

> 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).

One workaround would be for you to make your own local FTP mirror of your
already-downloaded distfiles (like
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/) and then, for NetBSD, add it
to your MASTER_SITE_BACKUP.

> 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.

Please show us an example.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

p.s. I should try using NetBSD pkgsrc on my FreeBSD boxes ...