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

On 22-Feb-00 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>> > > > 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*
>> 
>> Don't RPM's have to know to download two tarballs?
> 
> the RPMs are totally seperate tarballs ... unrelated to this ... about the
> only thing that would/could be affected is the FreeBSD ports collection,

Speaking of which, I sent a note back to Andreas about that.

Vince.
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