[csw-users] stable release

[James Lee]

On 28/07/09, 10:34:35, Klaus Heinz <khfp.blastwave0704 at gmx.de> wrote
regarding [csw-users] stable release:

> maybe I missed something but it looks to me as if the stable tree has
> hardly changed since August 2008 (I checked the "stable" directory at
> ftp.uni-erlangen.de and ftp.df.lth.se).

> Is this really the latest stable version of OpenCSW packages?

In fact the latest is 2008-03.  The August dates are only an OpenCSW
renaming.


> Why are most of the packages in the sparc/5.10 directory separate copies
> and not simply symbolic links to the same files in the sparc/5.8
> directory? This doubles to amount of data to download via ftp...

They are hard links in the source.  If you use rsync -H you will
not need to do the extras.

$ du -sk .
8496241 .
$ du -sk stable
5672004 stable
$ du -sk current
6955967 current

$ du -sk stable/sparc
3611659 stable/sparc
$ du -sk stable/sparc/5.8
3603287 stable/sparc/5.8
$ du -sk stable/sparc/5.10
3329905 stable/sparc/5.10




James.