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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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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

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