Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:04:21 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfile status - do I have to do something about it? Message-ID: <CADLo839KRzgf3s7fUp4NFKk5KHz2db1kJQBS7f_LOdRKKfa4LA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110821205559.GA97898@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <CAGFTUwNnoVWhO8op1M3oZCRvCn9i4MX7fDwRQCaHiJ36QG49AA@mail.gmail.com> <20110821205559.GA97898@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 21 Aug 2011 21:56, "Anton Shterenlikht" <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:22:08PM -0400, b. f. wrote: > > > I maintain these 2 ports: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distilator/mexas@bristol.ac.uk-bad.html > > > > > > Do I have to do something about it? > > > > Probably not for the 500s, unless the recur many times. The NXDOMAIN > > is more troubling: you should investigate if upstream has moved, or > > is defunct. If you can't determine this by other information, and the > > site is unreachable, wait a while, to ensure that it is not a > > temporary outage with someone's nameserver, and then, if the problem > > has not been solved, find another place to host the distfiles, or > > deprecate the port. > > I fixed NXDOMAIN. > Some 500s indeed recur many times. > I want to fix those too. However, > some are defined in Mk/bsd.sites.mk, > e.g.: sunsite.org.uk > > What's the procedure for updating > bsd.sites.mk? Send-pr -- any ports committer can edit it. Just don't break the syntax, or erwin will do horrible things to you. Chris
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