Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:12:40 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <20010602151240.B905@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010602160303.D28335@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:03:03PM %2B0300 References: <20010601131703.B15784@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106011225500.51483-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk> <20010601134436.C15784@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010602160303.D28335@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Heya Peter,
> > > The other possibility of supporting compressed plist files (apart from
> > > gzip) is some sort of custom ASCII tokenisation (i.e. replace all
> > > instances of "share/doc/foo/bar/" with "A" and list this substitution
> > > at the top of the plist). This method would enable the size of plist files
> > > to be reduced without worrying about repository bloat. Comments?
> >
> > This sounds like a fairly good idea. If we could use `standard' tools for this
> > then that would be the best solution, IMO.
>
> Errr.. this is already done, you know :) Well, not a single character,
> more like 5 chars, but you can use PLIST_SUB for this, and do something
> like:
Uh, now that you mention it, I'm already using that :) But I thought George
was referring to a more advanced system. But reading his mail again he
probably wasn't.
Kind regards,
/Ernst
--
Ernst de Haan
Java Architect
Jollem Information Technology
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