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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