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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:03:02 -0500
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Roland Jesse <jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What to do when "shar `find port_dir`" quits with "argument list too long"?
Message-ID:  <20010130090302.D26095@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010130090108.C26095@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:01:08AM -0500
References:  <0vy9vt3zvm.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <20010130090108.C26095@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:01:08AM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:58:53PM +0100, Roland Jesse wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just packed together a graphics/inventor port and was going to
> > send-pr(1) it. Following <porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html> a
> > shar(1) generated file is in place for that.
> > 
> > But:
> > 
> > % shar `find inventor`
> > zsh: argument list too long: shar
> > 
> > The port got quite large, though:
> > 
> > % du -sk inventor 
> > 34376   inventor
> > 
> > How else can I submit the port?
> > 
> 
> Ummm, may I ask why a port skeleton is 34k?
> 

oops, s/34k/34M/

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