From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 10 7:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from chg.ru (netserv1.chg.ru [193.233.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DB937B423; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@chg.ru) Received: (from dima@localhost) by chg.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA93890; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:36:12 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dima) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:36:12 +0400 From: Dmitry Sivachenko To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Mikhail Teterin , tadayuki.okada@windriver.com, demon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/kde2-i18n Makefile pkg-plist ports/misc/kde2-i18n/scripts Configure Message-ID: <20010410183611.A93792@netserv1.chg.ru> References: <200104101417.f3AEHBA53502@aldan.algebra.com> <3AD317D9.6FB782D0@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3AD317D9.6FB782D0@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:25:29PM +0300 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:25:29PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > On 10 Apr, Tadayuki OKADA wrote: > > > Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: > > >> > Any plan to use separate distfiles? > > >> > # 40MB file for one language is ridiculous. > > >> It is _source tarball_ which occupies 40MB. > > >> You can easily make separate packages for each language (see russian/kde2-i18n > > >> for example). This package is much smaller that 40MB. > > >> Install from packages and you will save bandwidht... > > > You are right. I can't optimize messages, can I? > > > Sorry for the miscomplaint. > > > I haven't used pkgs for years except for cvsup-bin. > > > > > > I'll send ja-kde2-i18n port, if you are not going to do. > > > # It's just two chracters change, though. > > > > Gentlemen, please! Why can't _one_ port handle this all? There are > > dozens of languages supported by KDE. Do we want to add dozens versions > > of this ports? > > This sucks, because there is no way to instruct package cluster to build > language-specific packages. Properly constructed master and several slave ports would > do it. In this case slave ports would contain a single Makefile with only several > lines, most of which are the same across all slaves. This is exactly how it currently works. See misc/kde2-i18n (master port) and russian/kde2-i18n (slave). > > > The single port can ask which languages are desired, fetch those > > tarballs and install them... > > As far as I understood, there is only one 40MB tarball with all supported languages > and it is the problem in question. > No, there are also separate tarballs for each language supported. But fetching source is bento's problem, it is easier to fetch one large tarball and make many small packages for each language. --dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message