From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 10:56:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CCD16A4CE; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE3A43D1D; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from [192.160.235.2] (cs242743-143.austin.rr.com [24.27.43.143]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C706141D7; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:56:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, richardcoleman@mindspring.com Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:53:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com> cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:56:42 -0000 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