From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 18:10:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EC01065670; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cvs-src@yandex.ru) Received: from forward14.mail.yandex.net (forward14.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801::4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6E78FC0A; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp13.mail.yandex.net (smtp13.mail.yandex.net [95.108.130.68]) by forward14.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 15BAE1981D04; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:10:01 +0400 (MSD) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1315678201; bh=kUbi1TW1wgKM2kXwtJXzCbNu6jAcbxHjXc85VIKDdtE=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BygGe8phBJSUWf+gMkf4zZJwdkdFqkEL7W6lfOAMCdxZ7smTVhzeDe8p/pBHU7oIK SlbqNeJmtNOWtL/08sLgjn61V5u9yBs9OE65Cd00eE5iC4IIQY7DhbTCXVe3OVf87E 26Getsfk8BL4i9VYA72h68SN9kRY9PTh3eyXLCrE= Received: from smtp13.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp13.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id D3AFCE402D5; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0400 (MSD) Received: from unknown (unknown [213.138.88.133]) by smtp13.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id 9x9eAQMg-A09GibcB; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0400 X-Yandex-Spam: 1 Message-ID: <4E6BA7EE.7010003@yandex.ru> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:09:50 +0400 From: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110828 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Rees References: <765103585.20110909143052@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20110909130458.GO31003@azathoth.lan> <20110909132437.GA66311@kta1c10.sesnet.soton.ac.uk> <20110909142857.GP31003@azathoth.lan> <4E6BA2CF.508@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Baptiste Daroussin , Lev Serebryakov , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "Klaus T. Aehlig" Subject: Re: [RFC] New ports idea: github / gitorious / bitbucket direct support. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:10:04 -0000 Chris Rees wrote on 10.09.2011 21:58: > On 10 September 2011 18:47, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: >> Chris Rees wrote on 10.09.2011 21:33: >>> >>> >>> Counterexamples welcome! >>> >>> Chris >> >> When i worked on net/erlyvideo port there on github were tarballs for some >> old versions of it. When i asked author to create tarballs for new versions >> too, he just delete all the tarballs :) >> So i just create and host them by myself. >> > > Hm, plain spiteful. I like to think (or hope) that's not > representative of most of our upstream friends ;) Yep, for the second (and last) example - mediacore guys also ignored my request. But they use tags on github and has tarballs on main website. > > The main question is, is it worth us writing code to handle a small > minority of projects that refuse, or is it just easier to host this > same minority ourselves? 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 -- Regards, Ruslan Tinderboxing kills... the drives.