Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:56:13 -0500 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r422505 - head/archivers/snappy-java Message-ID: <9f4ce30a-70a4-f668-50e0-a35be78b5032@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <92a0385e-13ac-0a43-4761-103ffa2e9961@FreeBSD.org> References: <201609201519.u8KFJrTF059560@repo.freebsd.org> <ec547bd4-0930-f39c-7a36-6462c7ad4517@FreeBSD.org> <3bbaf8af-e9d0-9fce-b103-2055bdce8e18@marino.st> <1db2352b-f6b6-ba58-d18d-7d1eac5c4c0f@FreeBSD.org> <202c3516-4c9e-971f-eddc-e3eb904f1ff7@marino.st> <92a0385e-13ac-0a43-4761-103ffa2e9961@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/21/2016 08:48, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 21/09/2016 à 15:43, John Marino a écrit : >> >> I'm trying to help. > > And it is a noble cause. In the end, what it does is give us more work > because the cache you are using are stuck with one version and will need > way more work to figure out when there is an update. Then this is the hangup. I *never* intended the change to the MASTER_SITE to continue past the existing version. The idea is that when somebody updates the version, they change the MASTER_SITE back to upstream. It is a provision and, in my opinion, reliable source for the exact distfile being requested. How exactly am I causing "more work"? Changing 1 additional line? If so, then I consider the benefits outweight the cost of changing that one line. > >> It also puts FreeBSD distcache back in the backup role, which is the >> primary discriminator for marking a port broken. > > Not it does not, a cache like our distcache, or those other OS caches > cannot be the upstream. first, I don't concede it's a cache in the purest sense and secondly, as long as that source is available it serves as a reliable host. Maybe it's time for portmgr to research this and publish a list of forbidden upstreams if they find it really is a cache and find they really don't want it. John --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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