Retrieving less data on cvsup?

[George Georgalis]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:40:33PM +0000, Dark Fiber wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:54:20 +0100, Diego Calleja <diegocg at xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I recently cvsup'ed the FreeBSD ports list. Syncing the ports database has
>>always been painful with slow connections, even with compression, specially
>>with freebsd's ports. I've always wondered if there's some way of not
>>downloading some of the files until I use them, like say
>>/usr/ports/foo/files/file.patch, which I'm not going to use until I install
>>the program, if I install it. I've diving trough the handbook but I didn't
>>find anything, or I missed it. It's possible to do something like that?
>
>whait i had thought was that each port should be 1 .tgz file,
>tar+gzip all the files + patches. this would use a boatload less
>inodes + disk space.

but that would make searching descriptions difficult... maybe two files?

// George

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