On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 01:47:57 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a subject I've wanted to bring up for a few years now. Why I > decided to bring it up now, I don't know; I guess I just felt it was > time. > > Simply put: the time it takes for "make fetch" to complete in > editors/vim gets worse and worse as more patches are released: > > ... > Solutions as I see them: > > * Change the first site in MASTER_SITE_VIM to the HTTP version of > the main distribution site: http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/. This > is already in the list, but the HTTP mirrors are *last*, not first. You can already change this by setting MASTER_SORT_REGEX= ^http on such ports > * Provide "snapshots" of the vim patches as a tgz-ball somewhere. > Have "make fetch" download that and untar it into DISTFILES/vim/. > Snapshots would need to be updated every time a new patch was added. The trouble is that this penalises people who do keep their distfiles cached, in favour of those that don't. And as you pointed-out this whole thing is a non-issue if you do cache them. > * Modify fetch(1) as described above. It's quite easy to fetch distfiles in parallel with building, which in most cases eliminates waiting for downloads. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
