Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-04-01 Thread Artur Szostak
___ From: macports-dev on behalf of Ryan Schmidt Sent: 29 March 2019 09:05:07 To: Joshua Root Cc: MacPorts Developers; Renee Otten Subject: Re: how to deal with large data files On Mar 27, 2019, at 23:12, Joshua Root wrote: > As a port, even if it's not mirrored,

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 27, 2019, at 23:12, Joshua Root wrote: > As a port, even if it's not mirrored, it's still going to be taking up > gigabytes per OS version on the builders I would indeed want to avoid keeping it installed on the buildbot workers; see https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57464 > and in th

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-28 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-3-28 17:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 05:12, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: >>> I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only >>> download a large data set (~5GB), >>> see https://github.com/macports/macports-port

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 05:12, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: > > I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only > > download a large data set (~5GB), > > see https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904. I assume we do > > not necessaril

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-27 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: > I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only > download a large data set (~5GB), > see https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904. I assume we do > not necessarily want to have that stored on the MacPorts distfile > mirro

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 27, 2019, at 19:38, Mark Anderson wrote: > > It’s an optional port? I think marking it non-distributible the the way to go > for now, but we should think about adding a “mirror no” “force_remote” or > something that is more semantic. The distributability of a binary is separate from the

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-27 Thread Mark Anderson
It’s an optional port? I think marking it non-distributible the the way to go for now, but we should think about adding a “mirror no” “force_remote” or something that is more semantic. Mind you I have no idea how to do that (yet). But it’s an idea. —Mark On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:17 PM Renee Ott

how to deal with large data files

2019-03-27 Thread Renee Otten
I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only download a large data set (~5GB), see https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904 . I assume we do not necessarily want to have that stored on the MacPorts distf