Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming repoman check will fail on large files in the tree

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

maillog: 29/07/2004-12:53:20(-0700): Jason Rhinelander types
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On Thursday 29 July 2004 05:52 am, Brian Harring wrote:
> >
> >>Policy states files over 20k are not to be commited- I'll be committing
> >>the logic to enforce this shortly- files over 20k will be viewed by
> >>repoman as a failed check.
> >
> >just so you guys know, the answer is NOT to compress them and add them 
> >back into the tree
> 
> There seem to be rather a lot of those already:
> 
> find /usr/portage/*-* -regex '.*\.\(tgz\|tbz2\|gz\|bz2\)'
> 
> Is there a specific policy about not having compressed file in the tree? 
>  If I'm not mistaken, a gz'ed or bz2'ed file in portage is sort of 
> pointless, since the rsync enables compression.  Maybe repoman could 
> complain about .gz, .bz2, .tgz, or .tbz2 files in the tree as well?

What about not allowing binary files at all?

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