Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:54:01 -0500 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: marino@freebsd.org, 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: <ebe86e67-e214-4eec-d1d3-ab930d60c394@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <98011c0f-742c-67c3-8e6a-d1ebef21b2d8@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> <9f4ce30a-70a4-f668-50e0-a35be78b5032@marino.st> <1b891572-9be2-f658-2942-42f5f6168c3d@FreeBSD.org> <3a8164b8-e15d-b955-05fc-3d817d1168d7@marino.st> <20160921211117.54166e17@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <98011c0f-742c-67c3-8e6a-d1ebef21b2d8@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/21/2016 15:37, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/21/2016 15:11, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> I would say using Fedora's cache is leeching and not very nice. > > I have to agree. And it is a cache. It's neither an upstream nor a > mirror of upstream or even something like LOCAL. Yes, we have the SHA > sums to help protect us from potential security issues and yes it's nice > to "just fix it". But the MASTER_SITES are used by other things such as > portscout, so just picking a random location isn't ideal. > > What really needs to be done is to find proper upstreams if they exist > and use them or deprecate the ports if not. Look at the python ones for > example, they're easily found in pypi. Can't we please do that? There are ports that have been using fedora and similar repositories for years now and they've been reliable (I am not aware of any of these where the MASTER_SITE went away). Originally it was implied that fedora/ubuntu isn't reliable, but they are. Now the concept of leeching has been introduced. There's a point there, but it's got to be a drop in the bucket. It's supposed to be a provisional fix and anybody with commit privilege (including the maintainer if defined) is free to fix it. I didn't pull fedora/ubuntu as the first resort, I searched first. If they had upstreams, they wouldn't have been on GOOGLE CODE in the first place. But Steve, you are fully free to look for upstreams. I'm not stopping you. Also, don't forget I was looking for EXACT versions. It was not my intent to UPGRADE the port. I didn't have time to test new versions, I needed matching hashes. There are new upstreams with new versions though, so I also invite you and everyone else to update the ports in question. How many are we talking about anyway? Like less than 20? Out of 400? a lot of inflated mole hills are going around here, yet again. John --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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