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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