Re: Splitting distributions (Was: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG / Release)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > One of the things I'd like to look at for 7.1 is start to split off the
> > distributions ... we're up to a 7meg distribution and growing ... 
> > 
> > We should be able to do a pgsql-docs.tar.gz and pgsql-src.tar.gz at the
> > very least ... putting 'doc' in a seperate tar file would reduce the size
> > by ~3meg:
> > 
> > total 3024
> > -rw-r--r--   1 scrappy  wheel  2969424 Feb 22 15:27 doc.tar.gz
> > 
> > Actually, is there a reason we can't do this now?  I can change the 'tar
> > build' system so that we have split systems that way ... this would at
> > least safe testers from downloading 3meg worth of tar file that most
> > likely won't get touched often ...
> > 
> > I'm going to do this tonight, put it up and see what ppl thing ... if
> > nothing else, it makes it easier for ppl to download smaller chunks ...
> 
> Seems like a good idea.  Only RPM packages would have to know of the
> split.

Huh? *raised eyebrow*