Hi, I also think this is an excellent idea. I would like to rise a priority for this change because it makes illumos-userland's file hierarchy much more simple and groups source tarballs in one place, where they can be rsynced directly to DLC mirror.
Adam On May 5, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Andrew Stormont wrote: > I think this is a great idea. > > Andrew. > > On 05/05/2012 17:35, "Alasdair Lumsden" <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> One improvement we added to s10-userland, was to download archives to a >> single top level archives directory instead of into the component >> directory. >> >> We used: >> >> $(WS_TOP)/archives >> >> We did this by defining "USERLAND_ARCHIVES?= $(WS_TOP)/archives" in >> shared-macros.mk and fixing up prep.mk. >> >> There are a few benefits to this, one is that if you have lots of >> illumos-userland workspaces, they can all share a single archive >> directory. It can be NFS or lofs mounted, and it makes rsyncing the >> contents of that directory up to our mirror archive a lot easier than >> manually picking through all the component directories. >> >> It also lets us add $(WS_TOP)/archives to .hgignore and no longer have to >> put up with seeing downloaded archives in the "hg status" output. >> >> Before I begin work on this changeset for illumos-userland, does anyone >> have any feedback? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alasdair _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev