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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:36:51 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        stesin@gu.net, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Here's a radical idea... 
Message-ID:  <13131.856787811@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:23:05 %2B0200." <199702241223.OAA02781@grackle.grondar.za> 

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> Andrew Stesin wrote:
> > > Since we have two perennial problems with the ports collection:
> > > 
> > > 	a) distfiles go away.
> > 
> > 	I vote "NO!"
> 
> Point a) was not for the vote! Point a) is something that actually
> happens: sometimes a master site stops carrying the tarball.

Right.  And I also forgot to note that for *many* ports in the
ports-current tree, this is now the case.  Just do a ``make fetch''
from /usr/ports with an empty distfiles directory and count the number
of fall-through-to-ftp.freebsd.org-cases if anyone wants to see for
themselves.  There are a lot. :-)

					Jordan



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