Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:30:15 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> Subject: Re: ports/distfiles on FTP Message-ID: <489B2317.7050904@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080807162106.GA58873@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20080807103121.GA8415@regency.nsu.ru> <489AD614.3010904@FreeBSD.org> <18586.62597.988090.707524@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20080807162106.GA58873@regency.nsu.ru>
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Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> <<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> said:
>>
>>> We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal.
>>> There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still
>>> needed even years later.
>> There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages
>> (particularly the static package sets included with releases).
>
> Fair enough. However, find . -exec basename {} \; | sort | uniq -d
> finds plenty of duplicates, including some monsters like
> OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz, for instance.
They were all the "right" location for a version of the port at some
point in history, and still are correct for any remaining users of that
version.
Kris
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