Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:01:59 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970224160116.1443J-100000@trifork.gu.net> In-Reply-To: <24067.856754707@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Since we have two perennial problems with the ports collection: > > a) distfiles go away. I vote "NO!" > b) distfiles are updated without changing the name. Probably. > It occurs to me that maybe we should simply change our default logic > in the way the sites are traversed. Why not put ftp.freebsd.org FIRST > in the list, since we keep it the most faithfully up to date and don't > spam ourselves (too often) with new versions. We'd put the "origin" > sites after that as locations of last resort (or in cases of > legal/export restrictions). I second this idea. Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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