Re: Retrieving less data on cvsup?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01.11.2004, at 15:46, George Georgalis wrote:
> > > I recently cvsup'ed the FreeBSD ports list. Syncing the ports 
> > > database has
> > > always been painful with slow connections, even with compression, 
> > > specially
> > > with freebsd's ports. I've always wondered if there's some way of not
> > > downloading some of the files until I use them, like say
> > > /usr/ports/foo/files/file.patch, which I'm not going to use until I 
> > > install
> > > the program, if I install it. I've diving trough the handbook but I 
> > > didn't
> > > find anything, or I missed it. It's possible to do something like 
> > > that?
> > whait i had thought was that each port should be 1 .tgz file,
> > tar+gzip all the files + patches. this would use a boatload less
> > inodes + disk space.
> but that would make searching descriptions difficult... maybe two 
> files?

I don't think anything of this is feasible with the current ports 
system. For a new system, yes, sure, there should be something like 
this available.

cheers
  simon

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