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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:38:54 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors
Message-ID:  <20030310163854.GA77083@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
References:  <20030310015452.GA70681@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030310195842.A93062-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:59:42PM +1100, Andrew wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > The major difficulty in "only updating packages that have changed" is
> > identifying those packages.  You can't compare the tarballs because
> 
> Is it safe to use PORTVERSION? You'd still have to catch compiler updates
> and the like with some other mechanism...

Nope.  Well maybe, but that isn't just the PORTVERSION of the package you
is under consideration, but also of *every* dependancy.

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