From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] patcher
Date: Wed Feb 14 11:57:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8ACE9B.DBDC6162@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010214115149.A16402@cvs.gentoo.org
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~
>
> Pete
>
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2001-02-14 11:52 [gentoo-dev] patcher Pete Gavin
2001-02-14 11:57 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
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