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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!relay!afterlife!jepstei
- From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Distribution sugestion for gcc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.005303.5999@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 00:53:03 GMT
- References: <1992Sep05.170344.14838@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Sep05.170344.14838@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I have been thinking about the method gcc is being distributed.
- >(partly because I had problems myself, and I seem to be not the only
- >one)
- >
- >Anyway, how about creating a tar file with EVERYTHING in it. This could
- >be done in two ways:
- >1) all the files that are in there now + an install script.
- >2) ALL that gcc needs. Even the links etc that the install script makes.
- >
- >Option one simply guarantees that you have all the files necessary.
- >Option two even eliminates the install script. (Tar should be capable
- >of tarring and restoring symlinks and hardlinks. right?)
- >
- >Now by this time everybody will be screaming that this will result in
- >a very large file. This can be accomodated by providing two versions:
- >one in a large file. The second split into chunks of about 1.2 megabytes.
- >People can then split the large file into pieces if they want, or
- >keep it in one chunk if possible. The smaller files can easily be transported
- >on floppies.
- >
- >--
- >Ok. Suggestions? pro's con's?
- >
- > Roger.
-
- I suggest splitting one huge tar file into 256,000 byte pieces ala
- what ftp.uu.net does for large GNU programs like gcc itself!!!
-
- I have suggested this in the past when I had a hard time downloading.
- I now have direct Unix (tm) downloading capability but appreciate the
- difficulties for non-Unix downloaders of files of 1.2 megabytes.
-
- John (former multics user)
-