FAT tarball

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:46:26 -0400
Brad Cowan <bcowan at gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm wondering if this "FAT" tarball is going to be the new preferred
> release method?  If so I'm going to have to break down the tarball and
> use Gentoo's resources as a mirror for each package instead of being
> able to rely on a much bigger base like SF. This new method just broke
> all my ebuilds :((  Also I just got the go ahead to add an xfce-base
> and xfce-extra categories to the top-level of our tree putting your
> wonderful project in a league with kde and gnome :), but I need to
> know what release method is going to be used before I have to redo all
> my ebuilds again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

The reason was that it is so much easier to do the release on SF like
this. The file release system is not very suitable for releasing many
files at once.

I'm hoping we can provide alternative locations for separate tarballs.
Benny's mirror at least has separate tarballs up.

Francois, Olivier, can we get the separate tarballs up on xfce.org? I
don't know if we want to archive releases, but it would be nice if at
least the current release would be available as separate packages from
an official xfce site.

	Jasper