images-and-archives has landed

[Rainer Müller]

On 2011-04-02 03:55 , Joshua Root wrote:
> As of r77511, port images are now stored as archives (ticket #19458).
> Basic operations all work for me. There's a new script run during 'make
> install' that converts existing image dirs into archives. It should
> theoretically work with the flat registry and convert from direct mode
> too, but I haven't tested that yet.

Great! I am currently converting my installed ports.

For the flat registry, I think we should remove it for the 1.10 release
as sqlite registry as proved to be fast and reliable.

Rainer