From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 12 19:22:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C6FF40D5 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19016 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 2000 03:22:25 -0000 Received: from dial-47-5.ots.utexas.edu (HELO nomad.dataplex.net) (128.83.251.5) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 13 Feb 2000 03:22:25 -0000 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:58:19 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <20000212161556.D51878@shale.csir.co.za> <20000212184249.D42371@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000212184249.D42371@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00021221204202.02429@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote: > > How well does CVS handle ar files? > > It doesn't. ar files are binary, binary files cannot be put into our CVS > archive. Instead we would have to uuencode them. They don't have to be! You could just as well use `shar`. It is isomorphic and not encoded. > > Remember, people need to maintain these, and we do that through CVS. > > We *really* do not want to move away from a central port's repository. > > Agreed. I never saw any disagreement on that point. A central repository is a "must". > At this point I think Richard is trying to solve something that > no one else finds an issue. What he has mentioned so far seems to be a > special need of his. I don't think I'm alone. Others have complained about the working size of the ports collection in terms of both inodes and bytes. I have also encountered the complaints that FreeBSD is getting too big for some of the "mirror" sites. The CTM generator is slowly grinding to a halt under the ever-increasing burden. Perhaps, those problems are insignificant to you because "we" have managed to scrounge enough resources to keep up the public facade. But, I assure you that you cannot avoid it forever. Unless you address infrastructure problems, the system will eventually "break" under its own weight. -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@Dataplex.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message