Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 2935 invoked by uid 6000); 8 Oct 1998 19:56:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 2922 invoked from network); 8 Oct 1998 19:56:54 -0000 Received: from devsys.jagunet.com (206.156.208.6) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 1998 19:56:54 -0000 Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.9.1/jag-2.4) id PAA25920 for new-httpd@apache.org; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:56:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199810081956.PAA25920@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: Binary tarballs To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:56:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <19981008213150.B5028@deejai.mch.sni.de> from "Martin Kraemer" at Oct 8, 98 09:31:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Martin Kraemer wrote: > Sounds interesting! > > Okay. Then let me add something like the following as a 4th proposal > to the STATUS file: > > 4. A "binary release" tarball (as noted under 2.) with the > addition of the _compressed_ source archive from which the > binary was produced. After unpacking the binary tar file > (which must of course contain the directory paths except for > the top level (rootdirectory) slash; btw. gnu tar strips off > this slash by default), the administrator has the chance to > remove this source archive to save space, or keep it in > place for later possible use. An example tar contents could > start like this: > drwxrwxr-x 0/0 0 Jul 17 10:59 1998 usr/local/apache/ > drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Oct 7 13:13 1998 usr/local/apache/src/ > drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Oct 7 13:13 1998 usr/local/apache/src/apache_1.3.3.tar.gz > drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Oct 7 13:13 1998 usr/local/apache/conf/ > -rw-r--r-- 0/0 12415 Oct 7 13:13 1998 usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf.default > lrwxrwxrwx 0/0 15 Aug 22 10:14 1997 usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf > -rw-r--r-- 0/0 2842 Oct 7 13:13 1998 usr/local/apache/conf/access.conf.default > -rw-r--r-- 0/0 0 Jul 20 13:46 1998 usr/local/apache/conf/access.conf > ... > Note that compressing such a tar file will not gain much > space, because the sources have been compressed already. > > > Martin > -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski ||| jim@jaguNET.com ||| http://www.jaguNET.com/ "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on"