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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:42:58 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <mirror176@cox.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: distfile questions
Message-ID:  <C7234DC2-EBA3-4AD9-98DA-918867B7EA41@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <8715DE19-DF88-493B-A713-6E0D56239363@mac.com>
References:  <200610251243.06644.mirror176@cox.net> <8715DE19-DF88-493B-A713-6E0D56239363@mac.com>

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On 26/10/2006, at 6:17 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> 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.

Any committer can also add it to their local distfiles, which are  
carried on some FreeBSD mirrors.




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