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Subject: Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd
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James Tanis wrote:
> "cpghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> 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.

No, you're both mistaken:

# MASTER_SITE_BACKUP
#                               - Backup location(s) for distribution 
files and patch
#                                 files if not found locally and 
${MASTER_SITES}/${PATCH_SITES}
#                                 Default:
# 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

All ports fall back to fetching from the master distfile repository if 
they can't be found at the upstream sites.  This dates back at least to 
1996.

Kris