FYI,
Where does one report problems with the package repository? On
ftp.freebsd.org and ftp6.freebsd.org, there are a number of "truncated
packages" (incomplete package .tgz files). I have a cron job that
downloads selected new packages, and it's noticing that a number of new
freebsd packages are MUCH smaller than before; spot-checking some from
ftp.freebsd.org shows that these files are obviously truncated (and are
thus unusable). Here's a partial list output from my cron job; the
number before "(remote)" is the size on ftp.freebsd.org, and the number
before "(local)" is the "old size" (the size of an older copy of the
file on my local disk):
Size diff: "dist/All/AbiWord-0.9.6.1_1.tgz": 8704 (remote) vs 7621132 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/ddd-3.3.tgz": 16896 (remote) vs 2495234 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/dictd-database-20010416_1.tgz": 80384 (remote) vs 29214892 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/emacs-21.1_5.tgz": 39424 (remote) vs 15567029 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/gcc30-3.0.2.tgz": 37376 (remote) vs 11245857 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/gimp-1.2.2_1,1.tgz": 6656 (remote) vs 7809660 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/lesstif-0.91.8.tgz": 80384 (remote) vs 2525874 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/qt-2.3.1_1.tgz": 8704 (remote) vs 9869728 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/qt-static-2.3.1_1.tgz": 27136 (remote) vs 7489599 (local)
Size diff: "dist/All/teTeX-1.0.7.tgz": 18944 (remote) vs 38717508 (local)
As much as I'd love to think that gcc and emacs can each be compressed
to under 40KB, it's wishful thinking. ;-(
For that matter, what happened to all of the kde and gnome packages
(the main ones are missing)?
Thanks,
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Darryl Okahata
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