Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:38:54 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310163854.GA77083@dragon.nuxi.com> 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: > > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The major difficulty in "only updating packages that have changed" is > > identifying those packages. You can't compare the tarballs because > > Is it safe to use PORTVERSION? You'd still have to catch compiler updates > and the like with some other mechanism... Nope. Well maybe, but that isn't just the PORTVERSION of the package you is under consideration, but also of *every* dependancy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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