GitHub migration complete
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Oct 31 08:00:05 PDT 2016
> On Oct 31, 2016, at 4:18 AM, René J. V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Clemens Lang wrote:
>
>> If your question is not yet answered, ask on the mailing lists so it can
>> be added.
>
> I may have overlooked this, but does github have any provisions that would allow
> the PortIndex files to be generated on the server and served with the actual repo
> contents? That would probably give a very significant reduction in the resources
> spent collectively to regenerate those files...
This issue only affects the very small percentage of the MacPorts user population (including developers and maintainers) that clones the git repository. Most users will use the rsync server, on which we do generate portindexes for each macOS version.
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