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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