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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:52:46 -0600
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/wminet Makefile
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:25:10AM -0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
# kevlo       2000/11/09 07:25:10 PST
# 
#   Modified files:
#     sysutils/wminet      Makefile 
#   Log:
#   Comment out MASTER_SITES and fall back to FreeBSD mirrors.

Umm... this is a bad idea. :)  If the MAINTAINER can't put this
file up somewhere then you might consider putting it up for him.
Just do the following:

 1. Get a copy of the tarball.
 2. Make sure there are no restrictions on you putting it up.
 3. Stick a copy of the file in freefall:~trevor/public_distfiles
 4. Wait for a magical cronjob to scoop it up and stick it on the
    freebsd ftp servers.
 5. Add the following lines to the port's Makefile.

MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	trevor

We shouldn't do this willy-nilly for every port, but if the
distfile is really not available anywhere else and the world
will be a worse place to live (might be exaggerating a bit
here :) if the port quit working or disappeared, then it
should be OK to mirror the distfiles for a port using FreeBSD
resources.

-steve


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