From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 13:38:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F13106564A for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BDF8FC0C for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1R6jS3-0008ST-Vu; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:38 -0400 Received: from v104.entropy.prv (v104.entropy.prv [192.168.1.104]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5046852F0C14; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E7B3A59.40704@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:38:33 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110902 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ganael LAPLANCHE References: <20110922071857.M71817@martymac.org> <20110922090740.GA17805@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110922092016.M80451@martymac.org> <4E7B2FA8.4050403@FreeBSD.org> <20110922125922.M59578@martymac.org> In-Reply-To: <20110922125922.M59578@martymac.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.189.245.235 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , Chris Rees , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About games/flightgear-aircrafts X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:38:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/11 9:13 AM, Ganael LAPLANCHE wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:52:56 -0400, Greg Larkin wrote > > Hi Greg, > >> [...] >> If you can break the flightgear airplanes (or subsets of >> airplanes) into a number of add-on ports, that would be one >> way to avoid the huge download problem, as well as an >> excessive number of OPTIONS in the base port. Of course, the >> add-on port idea assumes that airplanes can be downloaded >> individually in some fashion. > > Thanks for this explanation. > > I had thought about that option too, but the same questions as my first > solution remain : what should be the list of the available ports ? I > really have no idea here : any craft may be interesting to players. > Also, if this list could be established, why not keep a single port > (which would then be *a lot* easier to maintain) ? > > To sum um, in my opinion, there are in really 2 options : > > 1) Limit the port to a few selected aircrafts > => (either in one port or split) > 2) Remove the port > > I can go for 1), but I would need help to establish the list of > aircrafts you'd like... :p > > Best regards, I don't use flightgear, so others would have a better opinion than me about how to partition the airplane ports. Is there a forum on the upstream distro site where you could ask? You can also break them by first letter of the distfile names, combining where appropriate. An analysis of the number of distfiles per first letter of the filename yields: 2 1 7 16 a 35 b 30 c 30 d 29 e 5 f 28 g 5 h 18 i 2 j 9 k 8 l 17 m 22 n 6 o 4 p 22 q 1 r 10 s 32 t 8 u 2 v 7 w 1 x 2 y 3 z 2 You could combine some letters together and make a bunch of add-on ports with ~30 planes per port. Regards, Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk57OlkACgkQ0sRouByUApCD7wCguk8h/fk1QKuBP1kW6B+b4ebo C2sAn2krZJC5wtQpq1AZk5MDpoEIZ9dj =fgl+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----