Adding distfiles to the repository

[Blair Zajac]

William Siegrist wrote:
> 
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> I think we should not add distfiles to the Subversion repository
>>>> anymore. They take up lots of room. I could make thousands of
>>>> portfile edits in the amount of disk space used by a single distfile.
>>>> I would rather use 1K in the repository to add a new distfiles mirror
>>>> to the portfile than use 5MB to store a copy of the distfile. There
>>>> is "no way" to remove data from the repository "ever" [1] so it has
>>>> always seemed like the wrong place to put distfiles. And thankfully
>>>> we now have a much better solution in the distfiles mirror. I think
>>>> the only reason to add a distfile to the repository is if the
>>>> distfiles mirror is unable to mirror it for some technical reason,
>>>> and that should be rare.
>>>
>>> I agree with you. Subversion repositories are not a good place to
>>> archive non-changing binary data.
>>
>> Well, they are a good place to store non-changing binary data, it's 
>> just if you
>> don't need that data any more, say after a new version of the port 
>> comes out,
>> then you can't remove it and it consumes space forever.
>>
>> We could set up a new svn repository for distfiles, separate from the 
>> one for
>> Portfile's, and that repository could be exported and reimported into 
>> a fresh
>> repository every so often when it got too big.
>>
> 
> The wasted space is all server-side right? So its not that big of a deal 
> in the short term. MPWA should fix it for the long term.

Right.  The problem is in the main repository, unless we dump and filter that 
svn repository, the dist files will never go away.  If we move the distfiles 
into a separate repository and then Portfile one should see very little growth.

Blair