Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:19 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310094719.GB73108@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <20030310015452.GA70681@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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--24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:59:42PM +1100, Andrew wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > The major difficulty in "only updating packages that have changed" is > > identifying those packages. You can't compare the tarballs because >=20 > Is it safe to use PORTVERSION? You'd still have to catch compiler updates > and the like with some other mechanism... Like I said, it's a lot of extra work and it doesn't buy you much in reality. Packages change too much when you rebuild them from scratch. Kris --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+bF8mWry0BWjoQKURAt7bAKDlGR4MglfBY8ZD0RUf50kpcrWmgACg2k12 +I8ryVIryXiarKKiaGATgns= =AgPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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