Re: binary files in cvs ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:17:53PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I have a local patch for a package (nagios-base) which adds binary files
> > in files/ (the NetBSD logo in png, gif, jpg and gd2 formats, for use
> > in nagios web pages). Should I add these binary files in cvs as is,
> > or in some other format (uuencode, base64, ...) ?
> > Is these some infrastructure in place to convert them back in binary ?
> 
> How about making the separate distfiles instead? I think another
> package already does that, but I don't remember offhand which.

You're right, that's the way to go. thanks for the suggestion.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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