MOVED and UPDATING delivered with packages

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 11 14:09:33 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:00:56PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:52:31 +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > 
> >> The portmgr team has enhanced the pointyhead scripts to publish MOVED
> >> and UPDATING files together with the INDEX files that kports and
> >> pkg_upgrade use for binary package updating.
> >>
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135024
> >>
> > 
> > Very much appreciated but how about also providing them in bzip2 
> > compressed form ?
> > Especially INDEX, since it's is so large and compresses
> > so good:
> 
> There is a different PR for this (by the author of kports):
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/131440

Oh, somehow I missed this one.  Looking into it now.

Best,
-erwin

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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
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