Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:06:09 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <20130527140609.3d3b9d23@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Fri, 24 May 2013 17:23:18 -0400 Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > - It fetches almost 700 patches from what seems like a dial-up > connection in AUSTRALIA. > > You might as well be downloading a 1080p movie from a rock in the > north pole, because that's about how fast it is. This can be very > easily avoided by putting all the patches into a single tarball and > hosting it anywhere decent. I've seen someone in ##freebsd on > freenode handing out a tarball with all the patches many times, and > everyone asks "why isn't this the default? why is some random guy > giving me distfiles?" etc. Seems like a no-brainer. I prefer it the way it is; those patch files are cached in the distfiles directory, so only new patches need be downloaded. I can't say I've ever noticed it being slow. If you roll them up into one file the whole thing needs to be download every time a patch is added. If you combine a tarball with individual newer patch, it's no better than the current situation with caching.
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