I think this is a great idea. Andrew.
On 05/05/2012 17:35, "Alasdair Lumsden" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi All, > >One improvement we added to s10-userland, was to download archives to a >single top level archives directory instead of into the component >directory. > >We used: > >$(WS_TOP)/archives > >We did this by defining "USERLAND_ARCHIVES?= $(WS_TOP)/archives" in >shared-macros.mk and fixing up prep.mk. > >There are a few benefits to this, one is that if you have lots of >illumos-userland workspaces, they can all share a single archive >directory. It can be NFS or lofs mounted, and it makes rsyncing the >contents of that directory up to our mirror archive a lot easier than >manually picking through all the component directories. > >It also lets us add $(WS_TOP)/archives to .hgignore and no longer have to >put up with seeing downloaded archives in the "hg status" output. > >Before I begin work on this changeset for illumos-userland, does anyone >have any feedback? > >Cheers, > >Alasdair >_______________________________________________ >oi-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
