ports/131440: [feature-request] add INDEX.bz2 and checksums to PACKAGESITES

[Hannes Hauswedell]

>Number:         131440
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [feature-request] add INDEX.bz2 and checksums to PACKAGESITES
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 06 00:30:06 UTC 2009
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>Originator:     Hannes Hauswedell
>Release:        irrelevant
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>Description:
By adding a bzipped version of the INDEX-file to the PACKAGESITEs, you could reduce traffic for clients fetching the INDEX and of course also for the server distributing it by > 90%!

Having INDEX.bz2.md5 and/or INDEX.bz2.sha256 would also make it much easier to figure out if the INDEX needs to be fetched or not.

I am not sure how the build-process works, but it shouldn't be very difficult to implement...

Thanks for your help!
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
bzip2 INDEX
md5 INDEX.bz2 > INDEX.bz2.md5
sha256 INDEX.bz2 > INDEX.bz2.sha256

:D

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