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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 2002 02:08:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile distinfo.alpha distinfo.i386 pkg-plist.i386
Message-ID:  <20021208014658.M82142-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021208014146.GA1987@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:15:49PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> >
> > It sounds as though you plan to implement this in a way which won't create
> > duplicates of all the .alpha.rpm and .i386.rpm files.  If so, I'm all for
> > it.
>
> There can never be duplication for the arch specific RPMs because
> *.alpha.rpm and *.i386.rpm are two independent and seperate sets
> of entities.
>
> The following implements what I suggest:
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/emulators/linux_base/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.70
> diff -u -r1.70 Makefile
> --- Makefile	3 Dec 2002 06:45:56 -0000	1.70
> +++ Makefile	8 Dec 2002 01:39:36 -0000
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>  BUILD_DEPENDS=		rpm:${PORTSDIR}/archivers/rpm
>
>  ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=		alpha i386
> -DIST_SUBDIR=		rpm
> +DIST_SUBDIR=		rpm-${MACHINE_ARCH}

Presently all the RPMs exist in the rpm/ directory on the distfile
mirrors, CD-ROMs, and in users' private distfile caches.  With your patch,
users would have to download a second copy of them all (or manually move
their distfiles around), and mirrors would have to store a second copy of
them all.  My rough estimate is that this would take 30 MB of storage
space per architecture per linux_base port--on the order of 120 MB for
someone who works with both Alpha and i386 and with both linux_base 7.1
and linux_base-6.  The original problem was that Red Hat changed the time
stamp on one file.  I had thought of this solution, but it just seemed too
wasteful.

> > In the meantime, it would be best if the port were restored to a more
> > usable state.  IMO its breakage is the greater inconvenience.
>
> Fair enough. I didn't want to apply the above patch because we're
> too close to release to mess with DIST_SUBDIR gratuitously...

Thank you.  I read you as saying that it's okay to add back the second
checksums for the time being, until we come up with something better.  If
I haven't misunderstood, would you be so kind as to add them back?
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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