Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:04:11 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: bapt@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecation: round3 Message-ID: <4e39555b.aXrOnSmaaWrsvmPB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <9807aab2a5e2effdaa359cc38f926a8b@etoilebsd.net> References: <6483ddd2504ceeb023f1e4774b495f72@etoilebsd.net> <4e390eaf.5MJ3G9ielo7JZhvs%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9807aab2a5e2effdaa359cc38f926a8b@etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:02:39 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > What, exactly, is the significance of the list at > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html > > beyond that the ports listed there are unmaintained? > > > > "make fetch" succeeded for every one of the ~150 ports that > > I tried from that list ... > > Each ports defines a list of mirrors where the distfile should > hosted, and the infrastructure append some FreeBSD mirror for > convenience. > > the list represent the number of problematic mirrors. > > It doen't mean the ports is not fetchable yet, it mean some of > its mirrors do not share the distfile anymore. Any thought of adding that explanation to ~ehaupt/distilator and/or to ~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html (or making it more prominent, if it is already there)? All I could figure out was that the list had something to do with unfetchable distfiles, thus my confusion when "make fetch" succeeded.
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