From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 26 10:58: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D9137B401 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4QHw2B04134; Sun, 26 May 2002 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:58:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Ken Stailey Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for space to host an ITS RP06 image In-Reply-To: <3CF10C25.7060100@speakeasy.net> Message-ID: <20020526132759.L8013-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ken Stailey wrote: > I can't host it myself for want of bandwidth. Can anyone help provide a > place for a 46MB file? Whoever commits your ports can just place the distfile in his ~/local_distfiles/ and it will appear on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL. Dropping a note to hubs@ beforehand (I think that is the the proper list, but I'm not entirely sure) would be the polite thing, of course. There are also Sourceforge (http://www.sf.net/ --offline at the moment) and Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/). > -rw-r--r-- 1 kstailey wheel 48632878 May 26 12:00 PI-ITS-RP06.0-dbd9.bz You mentioned using bzip2. Usually it names files with ".bz2" whereas ".bz" typically indicates that the file was made by the bzip utility instead. Since bzip contains an unlicensed, patented algorithm, using it this way could cause legal problems. Please use bzip2 instead. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message