[oi-dev] Downloading archives to a common area

[Andrew Stormont]

I think this is a great idea.

Andrew.

On 05/05/2012 17:35, "Alasdair Lumsden" <alasdairrr at 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
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