Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:08:20 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Remove single MASTER_SITE warning in portlint? Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=iV4UWfajYMQFCdWPqPrGX2BX8Eq8BhiAprAuGUE9OAQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53AD060E.9080601@freebsd.org> References: <53AD060E.9080601@freebsd.org>
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On 26 June 2014 22:50, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > Apparently there was some discussion on IRC about this. A PR (Bugzilla) has > been opened requesting the portlint warning about only a single MASTER_SITE > to be done away with. > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191079 > > This was added before my time with portlint, and I could go either way on > it. We do have a list of CDN MASTER_SITE aliases to avoid warning for silly > things. But the question remains: do we need this warning at all? +1 to killing it. There are many ports for which there is only a single upstream location. Larger ports with better upstream infrastructure typically already have multiple MASTER_SITES. It adds noise when looking for "ports with portlint issues". -- Eitan Adler
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