FAT tarball

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Jul 14 10:02:15 CEST 2003


Brad,

Don't change anything to your ebuilds! The "fat" tarballs are just a
convenient method for me to deal with SF.net way of managing files.

Each tarball contains the inividual packages. Mirror are providing
inividial packages as well. 

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 05:46, Brad Cowan 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,
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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