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From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: make fetch on freefall
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Would it be a good idea to run a regular automatic make fetch
on freefall, then when other sites mirror the distfiles directory,
they'd get all the newly incorporated extras too ?

Some sites (such as the one I tape dump distfiles from once a week),
don't generally run make fetch, as the mirror host doesnt run FreeBSD,
but A-N-Other-UX-OS. Currently my distfiles/ off tape from that mirror
always seesm to have a lot more missing than just the `LEGAL'-limited
stuff, yet I know they mirror frequently.

If we did this make fetch, we'd want to avoid distributing kermit etc.

Julian S