Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:10:12 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecation: round3 Message-ID: <18c8dc0c9814ccdf7479e97a2727b12f@etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <4e39555b.aXrOnSmaaWrsvmPB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <6483ddd2504ceeb023f1e4774b495f72@etoilebsd.net> <4e390eaf.5MJ3G9ielo7JZhvs%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9807aab2a5e2effdaa359cc38f926a8b@etoilebsd.net> <4e39555b.aXrOnSmaaWrsvmPB%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:04:11 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:02:39 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> > What, exactly, is the significance of the list at >> > >> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html >> > beyond that the ports listed there are unmaintained? >> > >> > "make fetch" succeeded for every one of the ~150 ports that >> > I tried from that list ... >> >> Each ports defines a list of mirrors where the distfile should >> hosted, and the infrastructure append some FreeBSD mirror for >> convenience. >> >> the list represent the number of problematic mirrors. >> >> It doen't mean the ports is not fetchable yet, it mean some of >> its mirrors do not share the distfile anymore. > > Any thought of adding that explanation to ~ehaupt/distilator and/or > to ~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html (or making it more > prominent, if it is already there)? All I could figure out was that > the list had something to do with unfetchable distfiles, thus my > confusion when "make fetch" succeeded. Those with unfetchable distfiles are either marked as broken or deprecated currently :) concerning the explanation that would be a good idea, let's see what ehaupt think about this. regards, Bapt
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