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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here?
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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 * I've contemplated this too.  This is actually fairly easy - we just
 * need to stop populating the distfiles directory on wcarchive and stick
 * the files someplace else.  After all, it's really just the master ftp
 * site you want to be able to do ``get ports.tar.gz'' with, right?

Um, but we have ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles as a
backup to all the MASTER_SITES in bsd.port.mk we have been shipping.
We can't stop populating it.

Why don't we change it to a symbolic link?  Then "get ports.tar.gz"
will only pick it up as a symlink....

Satoshi