Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:25:37 +0200 From: "Raphael H. Becker" <rabe@p-i-n.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST CASE] Distributing KDE and GNOME dists via BitTorrent Message-ID: <20050928142537.O33058@p-i-n.com> In-Reply-To: <20050928100141.57485.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>; from lioux@freebsd.org on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:19AM -0300 References: <20050928002013.11564.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20050928053534.GB15395@local.net> <20050928100141.57485.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:19AM -0300, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:35:12AM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > > > > This could be the beginning of a new official distribution > > > medium. Please, help out by seeding for as long as possible. Pass > > > the word around, we want a nice try so grab what you want. > > > > Another nice "medium" would be CVS (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, wine, ... ) > > instead of downloading tarballs :) > > Do not forget that CVS is good for text not binary. So > binary packages (even source tar.gz) are good candidates not to mention > that CVS scares a lot of people off and it's just another option. ehm, what I meant was not to download full distfiles (tons of bytes) for every single firefox-security-fix or minor update, but to have a local sourcetree of such heavy projects with public CVS (pserv, ... ) and use them (with predefined CVS-tags or releases) instead of pre-packaged tarballs (distfiles). Disadvantage would be a lack of security (same like WITHOUT_CHECKSUM on distfiles). But if you have the choice ... Working with distfiles is just for extract them temporary into a work directory, applying some patches against it and do the predefined rest of the work (configure, make, packaging, etc ... ) Having (permanent) local and CVS checked out sources and just copying them into the (temporary) work would save a lot of traffic if a GNOME/KDE/Mozilla/Wine/whatever Update is in the ports. Instead of downloading a new distfile the port might trigger a CVS checkout to a predefined tag or date. Virtually the sources should be the same every time (but not bit-identical like a tarball). > The FreeBSD ports system is already available through CVSup > and through the ports system one can automagically fetch any of the > necessary files. I guess I just know this. Regards Raphael Becker
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