Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd Message-ID: <4887455E.6070504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080723140714.GA24632@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> References: <792213D8B249EC1C41EA0662@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOENGCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20080723140714.GA24632@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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cpghost wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the >> original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the >> author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost >> interest, stopped paying whatever ISP he had the main site for >> the program at, and the porter also lost interest in the project >> and never bothered obtaining the last available tarfile from >> the authors site and uploading it to freebsd, then both disappeared. >> Another one I can recall is the gated code, similar issue. > > Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every > *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd > (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? We've regularly collected and published port distfiles for at least a decade (with increasingly higher frequency as disk space came to permit). It may come as no surprise that Ted is talking out of his ass again :) Kris
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