On Tue, 22 May 2001, Xavier Hienne wrote:
> Another idea that could let you spare ibiblio's disk space and CPU time
> (no more "cp -R", "rm -rf" and diff) :
> - Let the CVS server do the diff for you
> cvs -Q rdiff -D yesterday module_name > patch-for-today
> - If the patch file is empty, nothing more is done except removing it.
> - Else apply it on the current snapshot, make your tarball and [bg]zip
> the patch file (btw why not compress with the -9 option ?)
It uses bzip2 for compression.
> That way, you no more need CVS dirs in your tree (are they useful for a
> snapshot ?). If for some reason you want to keep them, do a cvs update
> instead of applying the patch in the third step (the bad news is that
> makes the CVS server work twice for each module).
That's bad, because SourceForge has problems with thier bandwidth
from time to time...
> Maybe I did not see some edge effects but this solution seems ok to me.
> Do you see something wrong ?
It's already working very well, thus I think this question can be
replied by our webmaster at best.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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