On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Simon Burge wrote:

> Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > 
> > > >  for s in ../*.tgz; do split -b235k $s `basename $s tgz`; done
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe by the time 1.5 comes out, in a few months, floppies will be
> > > > perfectly obsolete, so we can agree to skip them. :-)
> > > 
> > > Not likely, so I would vote for the above rule being added to "make release"
> > > -- something that should have been done already, IMHO.
> > 
> > I went ahead and put it in before forgetting all about it. I noticed
> > now that none of the current snapshots have splits, so maybe we should
> > make this optional?
> 
> I missed that start of this

It wasn't on this list...

> - please please please make this behaviour
> optional.  For snapshots, it'll double the disk space needed on the ftp
> site and it mirrors.

Is bracketing the whole thing with ".ifndef NO_SPLITS" OK? That is, is
it OK to build the release(7) format by default, or should the default
be not to build the splits?

> While it helps with downloading remember that some
> ports don't actually have or use floppies either...

Oh dear, no. This is just for i386. Who elses uses splits?

Speaking of disk space, i386 has 6 current snapshots, and 2-1/2
1.4.2/1.4.2_ALPHA/1.4-xsrc snapshots. Time to clean house?