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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:50:17 +0400
From:      Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
To:        C-S <c-s@c-s.li>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket
Message-ID:  <4E6D10F9.9080805@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1315747396.3046.6.camel@laptop>
References:  <20110911120036.583A310656A9@hub.freebsd.org> <1315747396.3046.6.camel@laptop>

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C-S wrote on 11.09.2011 17:23:
>> 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

We will see that anyway - when user will try to extract changed 
distfile, he will get warning about incorrect checksum, so this is not 
the case, i believe.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.



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