From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 13 17:49:09 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA07934 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:49:09 -0700 Received: from salyko.cube.net (root@salyko.cube.net [193.141.73.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA07928 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:49:06 -0700 Received: from nasim.nasim.cube.net by salyko.cube.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sWYw6-0016DEC; Fri, 14 Jul 95 02:48 MET DST Received: by nasim.nasim.cube.net (Smail3.1.29.0 #1) id m0sWYvx-0007ZkC; Fri, 14 Jul 95 02:48 MET DST To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.ports Subject: Re: diffs and checksums Date: 14 Jul 1995 02:48:46 +0200 Organization: The Sunsite for ATARI-Friends Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3u4ete$shi@nasim.nasim.cube.net> References: <1223.805679516@palmer.demon.co.uk> <199507140020.RAA25092@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: ports-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 > " ('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 -- Frank Bartels | UUCP/ZModem/Fax: + 49 89 5469593 | MiNT is knarf@nasim.cube.net | Login: nuucp Index: /pub/ls-lR.nasim.gz | Now TOS!