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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea...
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:34:11 -0800 (PST)
Cc: ports@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <24067.856754707@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 23, 97 07:25:07 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Since we have two perennial problems with the ports collection:
> 
> 	a) distfiles go away.
> 	b) distfiles are updated without changing the name.
> 
> It occurs to me that maybe we should simply change our default logic
> in the way the sites are traversed.  Why not put ftp.freebsd.org FIRST
> in the list, since we keep it the most faithfully up to date and don't
> spam ourselves (too often) with new versions.  We'd put the "origin"
> sites after that as locations of last resort (or in cases of
> legal/export restrictions).
> 
> I think it would result in a much higher "hit rate" for ports with
> most people.

	how about a script that uses the contents fo the Makefiles
	to verify that distribution is still at the site.
	if not it sends mail tothe maintainer asking him to update
	the port.

	where is the authoratiative tree of ports and their files kept?
	can we run expect on that mahcine?
jmb