17 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-archAdding bsdiff to the base system| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Colin Percival | Mar 30, 2005 3:47 pm | |
| Ceri Davies | Mar 31, 2005 2:16 am | |
| Alexey Dokuchaev | Mar 31, 2005 2:24 am | |
| Colin Percival | Mar 31, 2005 2:33 am | |
| Colin Percival | Mar 31, 2005 2:47 am | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 31, 2005 9:06 pm | |
| Mario Hoerich | Apr 1, 2005 5:43 am | |
| Dan Nelson | Apr 1, 2005 7:27 am | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Apr 1, 2005 12:16 pm | |
| Alex Burke | Apr 1, 2005 1:18 pm | |
| Colin Percival | Apr 1, 2005 2:12 pm | |
| Max Laier | Apr 1, 2005 3:26 pm | |
| John Baldwin | Apr 2, 2005 12:15 pm | |
| Ceri Davies | Apr 4, 2005 8:45 am | |
| Olaf Wagner | Apr 6, 2005 11:49 pm | |
| Colin Percival | Apr 7, 2005 12:35 am | |
| John Polstra | Apr 8, 2005 8:11 am |
| Subject: | Adding bsdiff to the base system | |
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| From: | Colin Percival (coli...@wadham.ox.ac.uk) | |
| Date: | Mar 31, 2005 2:47:40 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-arch | |
Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
I also want to ask if there're enough reasons to bring portsnap and its dependencies into the base. What's wrong with having it in ports? It does not seem to be used/needed for vast majority of our user base, or am I wrong?
I'll conceed that portsnap is not yet used by the majority of our user base; but I think that is largely because portsnap is still quite new, and thus relatively unknown. At present portsnap is the only mechanism available by which most users can securely maintain an up-to-date copy of the FreeBSD ports tree; it also provides some other advantages over cvsup (reduced bandwidth and ports INDEX/INDEX-5/INDEX-6 files). Since portsnap and its dependencies will not significantly bloat the base system -- portsnap + bsdiff weigh in at a combined 54kB -- I think it is a sufficiently useful tool to justify inclusion.
When you consider that cvsup is a classic example of a program which is only excluded from the base system as a result of its dependencies, and portsnap makes cvsup unnecessary for most users, the case is even clearer.
Colin Percival