On Feb 15, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Feb 14, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote:
I don't know how you count, but I see 149 patch files in 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 (both stable and unstable) which are above 30k.
Sounds pretty low to me... under 1 percent since you're counting most packages 2 or even 3 times. (so you're counting within almost 6000 files... only 149 is very low)
How many *packages* is it? (stick to ONE tree)
Why? If these packages need to be changed, you have to fix/test 149 of them. Some might be easy as they are identical in all 4 trees, others have maybe 4 different versions. IMO it doesn't matter what percentage of the total packages this is. (I guess you will be happy to walk 50 miles as these is only 1% of 5000 miles, isn't it?)
What exactly is your problem here? We need to keep the distribution size of fink low. Every fink user has to have these on their disk. Most are NOT necessary and we can easily provide a space for them on our server.
My problem is, that you came up with an arbitrary number (30kB) without any discussion. There is no clear guidance on how to proceed for those packages already in cvs. Does this new limit apply only to new packages? Who is going to make the changes? I guess we will have to switch back to the 'old' naming scheme for patches stored on a server to make them unique.
I'm maintainer of one of the 'offending' packages: cernlib. In case that you want to enforce the new policy, could you please compress and upload the patches to the sourceforge server?
From 10.2-gcc3.3/stable/finkinfo/sci/cernlib.patch -> cernlib-2002-12.patch.gz
From 10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/finkinfo/sci/cernlib.patch -> cernlib-2003-2.patch.gz
From 10.3/stable/finkinfo/sci/cernlib.patch -> cernlib-2002-13.patch.gz
From 10.3/unstable/finkinfo/sci/cernlib.patch -> cernlib-2003-12.patch.gz
Currently the patches in 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 for the given version are identical. However, I cannot guarantee that this will stay like that. Therefore, I prefer to have the revision added for all four patches.
Please let me know when they are uploaded and where I can find them. I will then change the 4 info files.
BTW: we just got one package (in two trees) more to fix: Benjamin Reed committed the koffice.patch (47kB) today.
Cheers,
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