From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 16:12:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107A116A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:12:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405B743D48 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.181]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKV001520Z8RP00@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:11:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKV00MSA0Z8OI10@pd5mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:11:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKV00I2X0Z6GT@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:11:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:11:31 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050807160452.GF70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> To: Stijn Hoop Message-id: <42F632B3.90704@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F5BC19.5040602@freebsd.org> <20050807.211240.75793221.hrs@allbsd.org> <42F60443.2040301@freebsd.org> <20050807.231125.26489231.hrs@allbsd.org> <42F61960.4020400@freebsd.org> <20050807160452.GF70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:12:36 -0000 Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >>Those don't belong in src, but I could put them into the projects repo >>if people really want them. > > Not that I am going to do any such thing, but why prevent people from > providing their own binaries? Maybe they want to distribute their own > ports tree to an internal cluster using portsnap Two reasons come to mind: First, the portsnap chain of security starts with running cvsup to cvsup-master through a tunnel to freefall... a non-committer wouldn't be able to do that. Second, it would be far more efficient for this hypothetical user to keep their modifications as a local set of patches which were applied post-portsnap on individual machines. In any event, those are fairly irrelevant: I'm not going to prevent people from running their own portsnap builds, and if someone wants the code they can have it. Colin Percival