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Date:      Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:45:15 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/cad/admesh Makefile
Message-ID:  <b0535f6d53bb546b54d85797ec66cf0b@etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110812093328.GE85247@hades.panopticon>
References:  <201108020942.p729g1Ti068765@repoman.freebsd.org> <20110811180338.GB88978@hades.panopticon> <CADLo839VotWbi209%2BeR3LAuQ4HqC-LSGY4avcUFXHat=HjsrKg@mail.gmail.com> <20110812093328.GE85247@hades.panopticon>

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:33:28 +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Chris Rees (crees@freebsd.org) wrote:
>
>> > You've marked many ports BROKEN for no reason, please revert - 
>> distfiles
>> > for these ports are perfectly fetchable from FreeBSD mirror.
>> >
>>
>> I think bapt's point is that it's ONLY fetchable from the FreeBSD
>> mirror --  we're not project hosts, and a lack of fetchable distfile
>> usually indicates a dead upstream.
>
> And that is not being broken nor unfetchable. That's what the mirror
> is for.

That is not what there mirror is for, the mirror is there for some 
temporary upstream failure, to make sure that users will still have the 
distfile, not for definitive failure (upstream dead, or for distfile 
location/redirection changes).
BTW: in that case marking the ports has broken did the job it was 
intended to, people have had a look at it and fixed it, otherwise the 
problem won't have been fixed before eons.

thanks bf@ for having fixed this.

regards,
Bapt



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