From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 13 16:27:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02400 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net (punt-2d.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA02363; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa0526676; 13 Oct 97 23:10 BST Received: (from jraynard@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08192; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:50:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jraynard) Message-ID: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:50:14 +0100 From: James Raynard To: Satoshi Asami Cc: committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, ports-jp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. References: <3471.876678779@time.cdrom.com> <199710131056.DAA07776@bubble.didi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199710131056.DAA07776@bubble.didi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Ok...so it seems like the release is going out on 20th. The ports > freeze will be at 17:00PDT (10:00GMT) on Wednesday October 15th. ^^^^^^^^ Hmm, not sure I follow your arithmetic here :-) I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be worth mentioning anyway. What do people think to putting the size of the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port? This would be very helpful for people with poor Internet connectivity. Quite a few times I've thought about installing a port, but wasn't sure how long a download I was letting myself in for. Currently, the only way this can be done is by looking on the master site. Something along the lines of:- --- bsd.port.mk Mon Oct 13 20:07:19 1997 +++ bsd.port.mk.new Mon Oct 13 20:18:53 1997 @@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ MD5?= md5 .endif MD5_FILE?= ${FILESDIR}/md5 +LS?= ls -s +SIZES_FILE?= ${FILESDIR}/sizes MAKE_FLAGS?= -f MAKEFILE?= Makefile @@ -1350,6 +1352,7 @@ @(cd ${DISTDIR}; \ for file in ${_CKSUMFILES}; do \ ${MD5} $$file >> ${MD5_FILE}; \ + ${LS} $$file >> ${SIZES_FILE}; \ done) @for file in ${_IGNOREFILES}; do \ ${ECHO} "MD5 ($$file) = IGNORE" >> ${MD5_FILE}; \ -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/