From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 07:45:53 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB74BE53AE; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danfe@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C91CD10; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danfe@freebsd.org) Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 2B7201366; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:45:53 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Mathieu Arnold Cc: Tijl Coosemans , John Marino , marino@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: <20160922074553.GA93832@FreeBSD.org> References: <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> <20160921204950.GA83030@FreeBSD.org> <0ebb95f3-0bf5-5c34-c59f-8eb344f92fd7@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0ebb95f3-0bf5-5c34-c59f-8eb344f92fd7@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:45:53 -0000 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:52:03AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 21/09/2016 ?? 22:49, Alexey Dokuchaev a ??crit : > > I was actually wondering why use any distcache instead of Google's Cloud > > URL instead? I did not find them mention that there is an expiration date > > for Google Code project archives, so it's probably OK to assume we have a > > nice read-only storage of those distfiles for the time being, no? > > I'm going to paste the text I wrote last time someone asked that question: I didn't miss this piece of text the first time you posted it, but now I'm talking about something else. ;-) > Before marking all the ports BROKEN, I started by changing the > MASTER_SITE_GOOGLE_CODE entry to make things fetchable again. > The problem with that approach is that it is just hiding the fact that > the software have not been updated for more than a year and will never > be again. The goal of marking all those ports broken is that people will > go and look for where the software went after google code, so that it > gets updated when new releases go out. I understand why you marked them BROKEN rather than trying to fix the MASTER_SITE_GOOGLE_CODE. I was puzzled, however, that when John started to fix those ports, after failing to quickly find working new upstream or distfile he falled back to those GNU/Linux distros' caches instead of pointing to archived distfile in Google's own storage. As I understood, Google had closed their Code project, but distfiles won't go ahywhere (in a near future at least). If I missed their official "this stuff will be completely gone in two years" statement then I'm sorry and don't listen to me. ./danfe