Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:23:16 -0400 From: C-S <c-s@c-s.li> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket Message-ID: <1315747396.3046.6.camel@laptop> In-Reply-To: <20110911120036.583A310656A9@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110911120036.583A310656A9@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Sure it worth. From my POV, maintainer should be avoided the pleasure to > mess with selfhosted and selfpackaged tarballs as much as possible. > Besides of inconvenience it also less reliable (both in availability and > security aspects). > > > I'm perfectly happy to mirror anything if needed, by the way. > > > > Chris > Selfhosting can be very helpful. I once had many downloads of hiawatha from my server in my logs. So, I checked the hashes and discovered that the distfile from the original homepage was not the same anymore. The author of hiawatha had changed the file without any announcements... Carlo
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