From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 15:33:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8F71065673 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jtanis@mdchs.org) Received: from mta21.charter.net (mta21.charter.net [216.33.127.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF8E8FC14 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jtanis@mdchs.org) Received: from aarprv04.charter.net ([10.20.200.74]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080723153331.SVE26743.mta21.charter.net@aarprv04.charter.net>; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:33:31 -0400 Received: from portal.mdchs.org ([96.32.128.193]) by aarprv04.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080723153331.KNUK7436.aarprv04.charter.net@portal.mdchs.org>; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:33:31 -0400 Received: from phpmailer ([75.137.180.188]) by portal.mdchs.org with HTTP (PHPMailer); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:31:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:31:02 -0400 To: FreeBSD-Questions From: James Tanis Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.71] X-Mailer: FeLaMiMail In-Reply-To: <20080723140714.GA24632@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> Organization: Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:43 -0000 "cpghost" wrote: > The ports would still go to the primary sites (to conserve bandwidth), > but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available > on freebsd. I think his problem comes from the fact that some ports don't do this, not that it isn't a good idea. The port maintainers just never did it. -- James Tanis Technical Coordinator Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School e: jtanis@mdchs.org