ports/66298: editors/vim: Using patch tarballs instead of downloading individual patches

[Linh Pham]

>Number:         66298
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       editors/vim: Using patch tarballs instead of downloading individual patches
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 05 11:50:22 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Linh Pham
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 #1: Fri Apr 16 23:02:54 PDT 2004 question at q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386
>Description:
Currently, doing a 'make extract' for editors/vim has to open a connection,
download the individual patch file and close the connection each time... which
takes a *very* long time now that the patch level for vim is now in the
500's.

I would suggest that the port download the incremental patch tarballs provided
by vim for 0-100, 101-200 ... 401-500, then download the individual patches
after 501. This will dramatically decrease the 'make fetch' and 'make extract'
time.

Not to mention that it will reduce the size of the port's distinfo file.

Unfortunately, I don't have the Makefile hacking skills to hack out the
commands necessary to extract only the tarballs and not the individual patch
files.
>How-To-Repeat:
Fetch the latest version of editors/vim and run 'make fetch'.
>Fix:


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