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Date:      Mon, 17 May 2004 12:53:45 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, richardcoleman@mindspring.com
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com>
References:  <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com>

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On Monday 17 May 2004 09:26 am, Richard Coleman wrote:

> Why not auto-commit them to CVS?

Because at that point you not only bloat the master CVS repo
(these things are 5M, and there are two of them, and this is
happening hourly?), but you also force everyone who tracks
the ports tree by (e.g.) cvsup to download each and every
one of the diffs every time it changes (that's how CVS works
internally).

mcl



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