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On 10/04/2014 18:53, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> I created a new port, Typo3-LTS. The tgz contains
> 
> - Makefile
> - distinfo
> - pkg-plist
> - pkg-descr
> - a diff from www/typo3
> 
> The file has ~150kB so I assume it's to big for a PR.

I assume the bulk of that is the pkg-plist. The largest pkg-plist
in the ports tree is 4M. In my opinion huge plists should be dynamically
generated, but in your case I'd just I'd just temp-host the file
somewhere and file a PR with a link and a checksum.

Regards

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