Subject: Re: splitting pkgsrc.tar?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 01/28/1999 09:51:39
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon J Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au> writes:

    Simon> BTW, anyone thought of splitting pkgsrc.tar.gz into smaller
    Simon> pieces?

    Simon> I upgrade via tar files on tape - copied from a sup mirror
    Simon> at work.  The existing tar file is sufficiently huge and
    Simon> takes sufficiently long to unpack that I don't do it very
    Simon> often.

  I think that the idea of using CVS is much better, however, CVS can
be very slow over the network when lots of directories are involved.

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