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From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/wminet Makefile
References: <200011091525.HAA48579@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001109095246.J62344@bonsai.knology.net>
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Steve Price wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:25:10AM -0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> # kevlo       2000/11/09 07:25:10 PST
> # 
> #   Modified files:
> #     sysutils/wminet      Makefile 
> #   Log:
> #   Comment out MASTER_SITES and fall back to FreeBSD mirrors.
> 
> Umm... this is a bad idea. :)  If the MAINTAINER can't put this
> file up somewhere then you might consider putting it up for him.
> Just do the following:
> 
>  1. Get a copy of the tarball.
>  2. Make sure there are no restrictions on you putting it up.
>  3. Stick a copy of the file in freefall:~trevor/public_distfiles
>  4. Wait for a magical cronjob to scoop it up and stick it on the
>     freebsd ftp servers.
>  5. Add the following lines to the port's Makefile.
> 
> MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL}
> MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	trevor
> 
> We shouldn't do this willy-nilly for every port, but if the
> distfile is really not available anywhere else and the world
> will be a worse place to live (might be exaggerating a bit
> here :) if the port quit working or disappeared, then it
> should be OK to mirror the distfiles for a port using FreeBSD
> resources.

I'll fix Makefile, thanks :)

> -steve

- Kevin



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