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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:02:35 -0700
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make fetch on freefall
Message-ID:  <199507150002.RAA15776@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199507120949.LAA09706@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> (message from Julian Howard Stacey on Wed, 12 Jul 1995 11:49:14 %2B0200)

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 * Would it be a good idea to run a regular automatic make fetch
 * on freefall, then when other sites mirror the distfiles directory,
 * they'd get all the newly incorporated extras too ?

One thing, ftp.freebsd.org is wcarchive, not freefall. ;)  Of course,
freefall is sup.freebsd.org so for people who sup ports-distfiles, we
need a new set on freefall.

Two, freefall is usually pretty far behind in terms of current-ness,
I'm not even sure if we can do a "make fetch" without it blowing up
all over the place due to missing operands and such.

 * Some sites (such as the one I tape dump distfiles from once a week),
 * don't generally run make fetch, as the mirror host doesnt run FreeBSD,
 * but A-N-Other-UX-OS. Currently my distfiles/ off tape from that mirror
 * always seesm to have a lot more missing than just the `LEGAL'-limited
 * stuff, yet I know they mirror frequently.
 * 
 * If we did this make fetch, we'd want to avoid distributing kermit etc.

Yes, that is another problem.

We have a pretty good set of distfiles on thud, I do a "make package"
every time a port is upgraded or a new port is added, maybe we can use
that.  Should I start copying distfiles over to freefall and
wcarchive?

Satoshi



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