[gentoo-dev] patcher

[gentoo-dev] patcher

[Pete Gavin]

Hi,

I was wondering, wouldn't it be better to keep patches that are
gzipped in the distfiles directory, since cvs doesn't really work well
w/ binary files? I mean, I figure the only patches that should even be
managed by cvs are ones we create ourselves, and under normal
circumstances, those wouldn't be terribly large, so they could go w/o
being gzipped. And since most people update their portage tree using
rsync -z, they would be compressed before being sent over the network,
so that shouldn't cost too much extra bandwidth.

Pete

Re: [gentoo-dev] patcher

[Achim Gottinger]

Pete Gavin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering, wouldn't it be better to keep patches that are
> gzipped in the distfiles directory, since cvs doesn't really work well
> w/ binary files? I mean, I figure the only patches that should even be
> managed by cvs are ones we create ourselves, and under normal
> circumstances, those wouldn't be terribly large, so they could go w/o
> being gzipped. And since most people update their portage tree using
> rsync -z, they would be compressed before being sent over the network,
> so that shouldn't cost too much extra bandwidth.
>

But the cvs tree comes with the next source-cd and then saving space is
neccesarry.
I try to avoid making my own patches and prefer sed's for minor
modifications.
Maybe we can move the big patches to distfiles and put them in
gentoo-sources on ibiblio.

achim~

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