On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
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 ofportfile 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 mirrorto 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 freshrepository every so often when it got too big.
The wasted space is all server-side right? So its not that big of a deal in the short term. MPWA should fix it for the long term.
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