From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 3 11: 3:42 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D1F37B416; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g13J3ZS04091; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:03:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200202031903.g13J3ZS04091@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/vim Makefile distinfo In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Feb 2002 09:44:07 PST." <20020203094407.A38295@dragon.nuxi.com> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 14:03:30 -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:31:57AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:01:48PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > > Why would we not want patches? So what if they don't apply to us if > > > > concatenating and bzip2ing the whole thing will result in much more space > > > > savings than a million separate bzip2ed patches each with their little > > > > dictionary to work from and not be able to compress well? > > > > > > Please go find a real problem to solve. > > > > > > > Want to give a real answer? > > At this point I do not know if you guys are talking about makeing a few > large patches that are the application of say patches 1-50 applied and a > new patch made, or if you guys are just talking about tar'ing up the 150 > patches. BUT WHO FSCKING CARES?!?!? Is the Vim port taking up *THAT* > much of your disk space? I for one am thrilled that Bram is now > releasing these individual bug fixes as soon as he makes them. In the > past we would wait a few months for them. make fetch: 566.84s real 31.28s user 111.10s system make build (including the here-horrendous makesum and patch steps): 181.18s real 103.83s user 45.31s system Come on, tell me that's not ridiculous? This is on a cable modem. Under normal conditions I would have been able to download that much data in half a minute from most mirrors. If you think there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, fine, whatever. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message