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Date:      Thu, 07 Jan 2016 08:44:10 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Impact of missing IPv6 support on portstree
Message-ID:  <1452177850.2464813.485521242.766C9F33@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016, at 02:48, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> 
> On 06.01.2016 20:51, Mark Felder wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015, at 03:16, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> >>
> >> In conclusion: if you having an IPv6 only machine, you could not build
> >> 69.4 % of the ports.
> >
> > distcache.freebsd.org is reachable over IPv6. Distfiles should *still*
> > be fetchable over IPv6, but I don't know if there are edge cases where
> > distfiles aren't cached eg due to the MASTER_SITES being CHEESESHOP
> > (pypi), etc.
> 
> Therefore i wrote:
> "To check if a port is available for IPv6 i excluded the 
> distcache.freebsd.org host, because it is not part of the port."
> 

I missed this statement, sorry.

I do agree we need to reach out to these parties.

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld@FreeBSD.org



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