From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 15:59:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3694F106567C; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E4B8FC19; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia-2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8E134AF1; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:59:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:59:03 +0200 From: cpghost To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20080723175903.7c5d0a9e@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <4887455E.6070504@FreeBSD.org> References: <792213D8B249EC1C41EA0662@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080723140714.GA24632@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <4887455E.6070504@FreeBSD.org> Organization: Cordula's Web X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:09 -0000 On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the > >> original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the > >> author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost > >> interest, stopped paying whatever ISP he had the main site for > >> the program at, and the porter also lost interest in the project > >> and never bothered obtaining the last available tarfile from > >> the authors site and uploading it to freebsd, then both > >> disappeared. Another one I can recall is the gated code, similar > >> issue. > > > > Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every > > *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd > > (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? > > We've regularly collected and published port distfiles for at least a > decade (with increasingly higher frequency as disk space came to > permit). It may come as no surprise that Ted is talking out of his > ass again :) > > Kris Ah, thanks! Good to know, and it's good news! :) Will distfiles for ports that are no longer in the tree remain there as well, so that these ports can still be compiled with an older ports tree (yes, I know about the hairy security and dependency issues involved with old unmaintained and even dead ports...)? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/