From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 8 9:17:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC3537B401; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:17:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (mail-blue.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6995F43F93; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:17:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBF44CEF0; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:17:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03580; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:17:10 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.5) id h28HHBs28750; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:17:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200303081717.h28HHBs28750@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: dyeske@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder Cc: ports@freebsd.org, lioux@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:17:10 -0800 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.5a/makemail 2.9d Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >If a port distfile is unavailable, what should the maintainer do assuming >they have local copies of the distfile and the owner of the MASTER_SITE >is not able to be contacted? Find somewhere to stick 'em and stick 'em there. If you don't have your own space, find someone (like me) to put them in their MASTER_SITE_LOCAL. Many of the things in MASTER_SITE_LOCAL/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=fenner are distfiles from this kind of situation. My policy is pretty easygoing - if the easiest way to get the distfile survey to shut up is to use my MASTER_SITE_LOCAL, then I'm happy to do it. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message