Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 01:57:26 +0100 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MANUAL_FETCH Message-ID: <20040115005726.GA839@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20040114173759.GA2804@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200401132357.56754.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20040114011841.GM687@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <200401140838.46161.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20040114173759.GA2804@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brooks Davis wrote: > It would be nice if there were an option within this to specify a local > source for manually fetched distfiles so that you could fetch the file > once for several machines and have it usable in an automated way. I'm > thinking of something like: >=20 > MASTER_SITE_MANUAL Are you sure that this will not raise any legal issues? Sometimes, the conditions you have to accept for software, that needs to be manually fetched, are rather restrictive. Of course, in practice, nobody will go through the fetch procedure N times for her/his N machines, but I am not sure about the legal consequences if such a feature were built into FreeBSD's ports collection. Simon --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFABeV2Ckn+/eutqCoRAmZVAKDpnaGulrpHk9dQdqakWcpIIUG+NACeLi4c rG+QrG/dPkR48XKlfOszcwE= =7OKS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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