Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:36:51 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: stesin@gu.net, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <13131.856787811@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:23:05 %2B0200." <199702241223.OAA02781@grackle.grondar.za>
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> Andrew Stesin wrote: > > > Since we have two perennial problems with the ports collection: > > > > > > a) distfiles go away. > > > > I vote "NO!" > > Point a) was not for the vote! Point a) is something that actually > happens: sometimes a master site stops carrying the tarball. Right. And I also forgot to note that for *many* ports in the ports-current tree, this is now the case. Just do a ``make fetch'' from /usr/ports with an empty distfiles directory and count the number of fall-through-to-ftp.freebsd.org-cases if anyone wants to see for themselves. There are a lot. :-) Jordan
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