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Subject: Re: Moviedb - broken or not?
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Andrew P. wrote:
> 
> Oh, my! The distinfo file is just not funny. There
> has to be a better way to deal with this. Better
> than downloading the whole database every
> week. They offer incremental weekly diffs, we
> should figure out how to do it right.
> 
> The obvious solution would be to host a static
> db somewhere and have the port fetch all the
> needed patches.
> 
> Any ideas?

Try discuss this with a port maintainer: user@unknown.nu.
Yes, this address is not fake :)

-- 
Sem.