Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:23:33 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@freebsd.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 5e05ddcf5f09 - main - audio/alsa-lib: Switch master site to GitHub. Message-ID: <YWg9ZR5d1pF/Ptqz@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <YWbs4YQonzqvtmy6@loki.kortkamp.xyz> References: <202110131514.19DFETh9040017@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YWbs4YQonzqvtmy6@loki.kortkamp.xyz>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:27:45PM +0200, Tobias Kortkamp wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 03:14:29PM +0000, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > audio/alsa-lib: Switch master site to GitHub. > > > > The original distfiles are getting hard to come by for some reason, > > so switch to pulling source tarballs directly from GitHub. > > What do you mean with "hard to come by"? They seem to fetch just > fine. Releases are also available via https if ftp is a problem: > https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/lib/ +1. GitHub should only be used as a last resort, it's terrible place to host distfiles, not to mention that when it's backed by AWS-hosted site it could be blocked in some countries. Please follow Tobias' suggestion and use www.alsa-project.org instead (HTTP[S] preferred). ./danfe
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