Re: [9fans] a faster contrib(1)

2009-12-10 Thread Federico G. Benavento
it's a iso.bz2 because I can create it with mk9660 by using the same proto, the other option was writing a small program that used proto(2) to list the files and then create the tar. mk9660 was already there so... it didn't look like a pain, because you can mount an iso almost everywhere now a day

Re: [9fans] a faster contrib(1)

2009-12-10 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Why .iso.bz2? Wasn't .tgz enough? Just wondering. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > hola, > > we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time > now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. > > It still uses replica but instead of

[9fans] a faster contrib(1)

2009-12-10 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hola, we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the old behaviour is sti