Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:21:07 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/distfiles on FTP Message-ID: <20080807162106.GA58873@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <18586.62597.988090.707524@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <20080807103121.GA8415@regency.nsu.ru> <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org> <18586.62597.988090.707524@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> said:
>
> > We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal.
> > There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still
> > needed even years later.
>
> There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages
> (particularly the static package sets included with releases).
Fair enough. However, find . -exec basename {} \; | sort | uniq -d
finds plenty of duplicates, including some monsters like
OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz, for instance.
./danfe
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