On 2014/03/06 08:32, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > I'd like to ask. Does anyone find it useful? It is not in sync with > > > > the > > > > packages beside it. > > > > > > > > > > I thought the packages are being build from the ports tree or am I wrong? > > Sigh. > > So I can make a tar file available. At a particular moment in time. > > But the package builts are not done in an instant; far from that, especially > on slower machines. > > So read what I said again. They're not in sync. >
I think the main use for the tar files is for people who are behind a restrictive firewall that they can't ssh through to use anoncvs (though there are anoncvs servers which run on alternative ports which is often good enough to get around this). They might also be a bit quicker to fetch in bulk than a cvs checkout, which doesn't stream particularly well over slow net for lots of small files. Personally I'd keep them for releases (which also gives people a base to speed up updates to -current) but probably drop them for snapshots..
