From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 16 22:22:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23449 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23223; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.59.153]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA188E; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:22:03 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199811170400.UAA04950@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:26:33 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: distfiles Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: > With everyone and their hamsters putting software on their own > homepages, we have a large number of ports that are not mirrored > anyplace else. As many of these sites are ISPs trying to squeak by > with crappy systems, there are many times when they are not available. Running NT mayhaps ;) > I've been maintaining the distfiles/ dir on ftp.freebsd.org to keep > backups but the number of unfetchable ports has reached a point where > I can no longer work effectively with all those one-flakey-master-site > distfiles. There we have a problem actually... How long are we planning on maintaining older versions? Because it's often so that problem x and y are fixed in version z.q of the port which has been updated by cvsup of STABLE/CURRENT. And since most egcs versions, to take one example, is 13 MB per version yer talking major diskspace here... > Therefore, I would like to request you do at least one of the > following. > > (1) Find backup sites on different continents. Having five sites in > Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down. ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no > If you don't follow the guidelines, and the distfile is not fetchable > at the moment I try to fetch it, the port will be marked BROKEN > immediately. Could not agree more... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message