[arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/system/archboot (3 files)

[Jan de Groot]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: arch-commits-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-commits-
> bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Tobias Powalowski
> Verzonden: maandag 22 oktober 2007 13:25
> Aan: arch-commits at archlinux.org
> Onderwerp: [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/system/archboot (3 files)
> 
>     Date: Monday, October 22, 2007 @ 07:24:43
>   Author: tpowa
>     Path: /home/cvs-extra/extra/system/archboot
> 
>    Added: archboot-2007.11-1.tar.bz2 (1.1)
> Modified: PKGBUILD (1.54 -> 1.55)
>  Removed: archboot-0.4.27.tar.bz2 (1.1)
> 
> 'upgpkg: update to new Core Dump release'
> 
> 
>...
>
> Index: extra/system/archboot/archboot-0.4.27.tar.bz2
> <<Binary file>>
> Index: extra/system/archboot/archboot-2007.11-1.tar.bz2
> <<Binary file>>
> 

Why do we still store these big binaries in CVS? There's no sane version
tracking for binary files and these things make checkouts very big (users
who run abs get all this shit downloaded). 
I've enabled write access to /other/ for the ftp-arch group yesterday,
please use that directory for such things. IMHO this directory should also
replace the ~tpowa/, ~alexander/ and ~jgc/ things we're using at this moment
to store unofficial source tarballs for packages (xulrunner comes to my
mind).