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Date:      Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:41:21 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        linimon@lonesome.com
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org, jgh@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX in bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <4f1863d1.Fic%2Bp76hZFab0jQU%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120118222747.GA372@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:09:10PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> > I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with
> > other people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if
> > it's explicitly developed by Fedora.
>
> Correct.  dougb has pointed this out before and no one has taken
> the cycles to go act on it.  Consider this a task that needs
> volunteers.
>
> (A similiar caveat applies to the Debian and NetBSD sites;
> I believe it was Debian he flagged previously.)

Isn't this concern orthogonal to the original one about maintaining
a (set of) correct MASTER_SITE setting(s), for use by such ports as
can legitimately use Fedora/Debian/NetBSD/whatever sites?



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