Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:26:33 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: distfiles Message-ID: <XFMail.981117072633.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199811170400.UAA04950@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: > With everyone and their hamsters putting software on their own > homepages, we have a large number of ports that are not mirrored > anyplace else. As many of these sites are ISPs trying to squeak by > with crappy systems, there are many times when they are not available. Running NT mayhaps ;) > I've been maintaining the distfiles/ dir on ftp.freebsd.org to keep > backups but the number of unfetchable ports has reached a point where > I can no longer work effectively with all those one-flakey-master-site > distfiles. There we have a problem actually... How long are we planning on maintaining older versions? Because it's often so that problem x and y are fixed in version z.q of the port which has been updated by cvsup of STABLE/CURRENT. And since most egcs versions, to take one example, is 13 MB per version yer talking major diskspace here... > Therefore, I would like to request you do at least one of the > following. > > (1) Find backup sites on different continents. Having five sites in > Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down. ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no > If you don't follow the guidelines, and the distfile is not fetchable > at the moment I try to fetch it, the port will be marked BROKEN > immediately. Could not agree more... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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