Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:41:39 +0200 From: "Bradley T. Hughes" <bradleythughes@fastmail.fm> To: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> Cc: rs+freebsd-ports@trust64.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zimbra Port Message-ID: <FA5DB3F5-F51D-4149-9013-E480864210F4@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <cc640476-9ae8-d4da-4f84-ee066654f6a1@toco-domains.de> References: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com> <cc640476-9ae8-d4da-4f84-ee066654f6a1@toco-domains.de>
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> On 01 Jun 2016, at 16:08, Torsten Zuehlsdorff =
<mailinglists@toco-domains.de> wrote:
>=20
>> * The Zimbra source is huge, a git clone is about 13 GigaBytes. I am =
not
>> sure on how source that big is handled correctly in ports. (e.g. is =
it
>> OK that every make does a git clone and you have to wait until you =
get
>> the 13 GB of data? Would this be a problem for the FreeBSD build =
cluster
>> infrastructure to create the packages?, ...)
>=20
> A git clone contains the complete development *history*. If a try to =
fetch a packet from their homepage it is "just" around 850 MB which =
should not be a problem.
>=20
>> * On the porters handbook it says to fetch a tarball from http/ftp, =
is
>> it also possible to directly work with git and clone a repository?
>=20
> I'm not aware of such a way. But since there is a Git-Repo: isn't =
there a management tool like GitLab, which could provides tarballs? At =
least it is possible to set one up, clone the repo and provide it this =
way.
There's also the --depth option to git clone that can help limit the =
size of the resulting checkout.
--depth <depth>
Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the =
specified
number of commits. Implies --single-branch unless
--no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the =
tips of
all branches.
--
Bradley T. Hughes
bradleythughes@fastmail.fm
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