From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 20:17:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D04F16A40F for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E38343D45 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin05-en2 [10.13.10.150]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout15/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9PKH7ZB002800; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin05/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9PKH5S0017738; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:17:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200610251243.06644.mirror176@cox.net> References: <200610251243.06644.mirror176@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8715DE19-DF88-493B-A713-6E0D56239363@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:17:04 -0700 To: "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfile questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:17:10 -0000 On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: > On a couple ports I am working on, availability is only in the > form of > cvs/svn. I made a temporary prefetch section for my own convenience > which > calls up a particular revision off the server, compresses an > archive of it, > and places it in the distfiles directory (thus leaving fetch happy > as long as > checksums match). Is there a preferred way to handle these cases > other than > my temporary code or putting it on my ISP's provided webspace which > may cap > out due to too much monthly upload (and the filetypes may not even > be allowed > anyways)? Find another place willing to host the distfiles for the ports. Something like SourceForge or Collabnet or the FSF will generally host projects, depending on their purpose and licensing. -- -Chuck