Rainer Müller wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> I think we should not add distfiles to the Subversion repository >> anymore. They take up lots of room. I could make thousands of >> portfile edits in the amount of disk space used by a single distfile. >> I would rather use 1K in the repository to add a new distfiles mirror >> to the portfile than use 5MB to store a copy of the distfile. There >> is "no way" to remove data from the repository "ever" [1] so it has >> always seemed like the wrong place to put distfiles. And thankfully >> we now have a much better solution in the distfiles mirror. I think >> the only reason to add a distfile to the repository is if the >> distfiles mirror is unable to mirror it for some technical reason, >> and that should be rare. > > I agree with you. Subversion repositories are not a good place to > archive non-changing binary data.
Well, they are a good place to store non-changing binary data, it's just if you don't need that data any more, say after a new version of the port comes out, then you can't remove it and it consumes space forever. We could set up a new svn repository for distfiles, separate from the one for Portfile's, and that repository could be exported and reimported into a fresh repository every so often when it got too big. Blair _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
