duplicating apache-ant-*-bin distfiles?

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at nsu.ru
Thu Dec 25 16:34:56 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:23:33PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> $ ll apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.*
>   .. bla-bla.. 	4351965 30 Apr  2014 apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.bz2
>   .. bla-bla..  8309406 30 Apr  2014 apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.zip
> 
> their contents look the same, just packed differently (notice how .zip
> sucks ass).
> 
> why two files?  because `devel/apache-ant' wants .tar.bz2, but both
> `java/openjdk6' and `java/openjdk7' want .zip.
> 
> could we do something about this, so everyone (users, buildbots) would
> not have to download the same stuff [more than] twice?  thanks,

retransmit.  if this problem only looks simple, i apologize for annoyance
(but please explain); otherwise i'm willing to provide a patch.  i won't
tolerate such an abuse of harddrive space and common sense.

./danfe


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