Hello, [email protected] (Stuart Henderson), 2014.03.06 (Thu) 16:42 (CET): > 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? > > > > 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..
Without having write permissions here: I like the idea. [email protected] (Theo de Raadt), 2014.03.06 (Thu) 15:56 (CET): > > is there a reason, why there is no ports.tar.gz in the latest snapshot > > folder? > At present, it is not being built in the ftp area any more. > I'd like to ask. Does anyone find it useful? It is not in sync with the > packages beside it. Useful yes, needed, no. One of the major drawbacks of running -current to me is that the apropriate downloadable packages are only available shortly. After that you need the apropriate ports tree to install further packages from there. My future procedure: a) install snapshot, b) get latest release ports tarball, c) extract, d) cvs up, e) leave as is until next snapshot install. [email protected] (Gregor Best), 2014.03.06 (Thu) 17:16 (CET): > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:56:14AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > [...] > > I'd like to ask. Does anyone find it useful? It is not in sync with the > > packages beside it. > > [...] > In the past, I found the tarball quite useful to jump start the ports > tree on my local machine. I'd extract it and then use CVS to update it > to the repository, because that's usually a lot faster than doing the > entire checkout from CVS. So then you could still get yourself the -release tarball and cvs update from there, don't you? Bye, Marcus
