Hi, On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:56:21 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:
> tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files files > convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can reduce the > size of the while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply merging them > into one of the other files (Makefile and/or pkg-plist) from my > testing it really devides significantly the size of the tree. > it is some 50 000 small files. > Problem is how to merge them if we want to. > > What we do not want to loose: > - Easyness of parsing distinfo > - Easyness to get informations about the description > Could they be put into a single file with a format like: [/usr/ports/www/firefox] descr="some text which can span line" distinfo="SHA256 (firefox-33.0.source.tar.bz2) = 1018c2fae8c54c8a45f5a3ce348a2617a3f8039a789b09b7cfa5a27be069b229" SIZE = "(firefox-33.0.source.tar.bz2) = 155177527" It is a bit old fashioned but will fulfil the requirements but will add just one new layer. Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
