From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 25 04:45:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA21923 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 04:45:31 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA21917 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 04:45:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA03786 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 13:39:32 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199502251239.NAA03786@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: A suggestion on ports/ layout To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 13:39:32 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 813 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently had to grab the ports distribution for FreeBSD. With the current strategy of separating the original distribution and the FreeBSD diffs, and the fact that most ftp sites support tar and gzip, I thought it was ok to move to the the parent directory of ports and do get ports.tar.gz EXCEPT that this also includes "ports/distfiles", which is huge. Could we move it somewhere else ? This way, grabbing a ports distribution would become very fast. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================