From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Mar 10 1:47:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB36937B401; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E7D43FAF; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3878666D16; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18C6A8F9; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:47:19 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrew Cc: Kris Kennaway , jason andrade , David O'Brien , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310094719.GB73108@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030310015452.GA70681@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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