Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:32:49 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> To: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106011225500.51483-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010601131703.B15784@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Then perhaps we can separate the distribution and the local storage format? That's a possibility. However, if the local storage format and the distribution format differ, there must exist some method of converting between one and the other. CVSup could learn how to support locally-compressed files, or a script could be run before CVSup to decompress all plist files and then recompress them afterwards. I'm not sure this idea would work very well, but I'm open to suggestions/comments. 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? -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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