Re: [gentoo-dev] Large files still in files/

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:25 +0000, Cory Visi wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:10:24PM -0500, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> > Mark Loeser wrote:
> > > There's also quite a large amount of binary files still in the tree.  A
> > > lot of them seem to be compressed patches.  I'm not sure what should be
> > > done with those, but I thought putting binary files into the tree was
> > > discouraged unless absolutely necessary.  Lots of 4k compressed patches
> > > doesn't seem to be something absolutely necessary.
> > 
> > Tying this to the Portage-tree collection-copyright issue, it might be a
> > good idea for all third-party-sourced patches, with e-mail headers or
> > other such authorship/source/copyright information still intact at the
> > start (and happily skipped by the patch command), to be gzipped and put
> > in distfiles, and the tree itself to be reserved for stuff written
> > specifically for the Gentoo project.
> > 
> > This does still leave large Gentoo-supplied patches in question; I'm
> > uncomfortable with the idea of us getting *that* far from the upstream
> > sources, though.
> 
> I kind of like this idea, however, I think it's idealistic. Patches need 
> to be modified very frequently. Especially when we combine multiple 
> patches and make them all work with USE flags.
> 
> A great deal of our patches really are written specifically work with our 
> ebuilds.
> 
> What is the real percentage of space usage from compressed or uncompressed 
> patches? How big of a problem is it?
> 

Also the problem is that especially if you have a rapid changing
package, where the patches changes a lot, putting it in distfiles is a
pita, as you have to scp it, then wait an hour to 3 depending on how
lucky you are, and then only commit.  And especially if you forgetful
like me, you tend to forget to either come back and commit the new
version/revision, or to copy the new tarball to distfiles ...

-- 
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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