Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:06:48 -0800 Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > >> with the tarball ... > >> since you could start from there an

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Alex Dupre
Edwin Groothuis wrote: >>> That would save me 42Mb to download each time :-P > > Oh wait. The cvsup checkouts file is probably a small (set of) > file(s) with some revision information, while the portsnap file is > a huge chunk of data with a copy of the ports tree. Well, even better: instead of

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:26:09PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> Edwin Groothuis wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:39:19AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: Doug Barton wrote: > In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed > up version of th

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:26:09PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:39:19AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > >> Doug Barton wrote: > >>> In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed > >>> up version of the ports tree, I had an ide

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:39:19AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >>> In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed >>> up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more >>> useful. How hard would it be to include

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
RW wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file >> with the tarball, and install it into some standard location? I think >> that would greatly increase the utility of the tarball, since you >> coul

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-25 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:39:19AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed > > up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more > > useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts fil

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:13:06 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My feeling is that it's not worth the effort, because most people that > use the tarball only do so because of networking problems, I think I slightly misunderstood that you're talking about the ports tree on the install disk ra

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > with the tarball, and install it into some standard location? I think > that would greatly increase the utility of the tarball, since you > could start from there

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-24 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Alex Dupre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed > > up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more > > useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > > with the tarball, and install it in

Re: Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-24 Thread Alex Dupre
Doug Barton wrote: > In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed > up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more > useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file > with the tarball, and install it into some standard location? A

Idea about the ports tree included in the release

2007-11-23 Thread Doug Barton
In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file with the tarball, and install it into some standard location? I think that would greatly in