Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:27:16 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, 'Conor McDermottroe' <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, 'Robert Huff' <roberthuff@rcn.com>, 'Byung-Hee HWANG' <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> Subject: Re: sysutils/lsof cannot fetch distfile ;; Message-ID: <20080125202716.GL68942@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20080125195746.GA39276@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <1201277294.14641.3.camel@jihad.izb.knu.ac.kr> <20080125161747.GE68942@atarininja.org> <1201280438.16470.2.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <20080125113306.F19209@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <18330.12446.237582.455591@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <02d301c85f83$ff481e10$fdd85a30$@org> <20080125193921.GI68942@atarininja.org> <20080125195746.GA39276@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:57:46PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:39:21PM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:56:20PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > I was talking about GETTING the distfile onto the freebsd.org mirrors. > > > > I'm working on this now. I've never had to do something like this > > before but from what I can gather placing it in ~/distfiles on freefall > > will eventually get it placed in > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. I've done exactly > > this so it should be mirrored out eventually. If I'm wrong in this I'll > > have to ask my mentor what the correct procedure is. For now, you can > > fetch it manually from the location Larry provided. > > The correct directory is ~/public_distfiles. See: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#SLOW-SOURCES > > -- Brooks Thanks. I've done that and am now awaiting maintainer approval to commit the necessary changes to the Makefile. I was hoping not to have to make those changes because they will just have to be undone eventually, but such is life I guess. -- WXS
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