Date: 14 Jul 1995 02:48:46 +0200 From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diffs and checksums Message-ID: <3u4ete$shi@nasim.nasim.cube.net> References: <1223.805679516@palmer.demon.co.uk> <199507140020.RAA25092@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Satoshi Asami (asami@cs.berkeley.edu) wrote:
> Well, it's a matter of preference. I prefer -u diffs, I usually find
> them easier to read than -c diffs. :)
Ahh! ;))
> Also, we should be able to save space on wcarchive (and mirror sites)
> by doing znew --best on all the distfiles.
I don't think it's worth the CPU usage using --best. But let us discuss
this later. ;)
> The only problem is, how? I couldn't come up with a way to implement
> this without having to gzcat the file every time a user types "make
> <something>" ('cause most of the targets depend on "checksum"), or
> forcing a znew from bsd.port.mk.
Something like work/.checksum.done would cure this problem, wouldn't
it? Hmm, work/ may not exist at this time, then what about
distfiles/.filename.ok ? Again a bad idea if someone mirrores these
files. Create the work directory with the ckecksum target?
Bye,
Knarf
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