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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:23:16 -0400
From:      C-S <c-s@c-s.li>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket
Message-ID:  <1315747396.3046.6.camel@laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20110911120036.583A310656A9@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20110911120036.583A310656A9@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Sure it worth. From my POV, maintainer should be avoided the pleasure to 
> mess with selfhosted and selfpackaged tarballs as much as possible. 
> Besides of inconvenience it also less reliable (both in availability and 
> security aspects).
> 
> > I'm perfectly happy to mirror anything if needed, by the way.
> >
> > Chris
> 

Selfhosting can be very helpful. I once had many downloads of hiawatha
from my server in my logs. So, I checked the hashes and discovered that
the distfile from the original homepage was not the same anymore. The
author of hiawatha had changed the file without any announcements...

Carlo




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