Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:36 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd Message-ID: <4887570C.50700@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080723175903.7c5d0a9e@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> References: <792213D8B249EC1C41EA0662@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOENGCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20080723140714.GA24632@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <4887455E.6070504@FreeBSD.org> <20080723175903.7c5d0a9e@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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cpghost wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 > Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> cpghost wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>> Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the >>>> original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the >>>> author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost >>>> interest, stopped paying whatever ISP he had the main site for >>>> the program at, and the porter also lost interest in the project >>>> and never bothered obtaining the last available tarfile from >>>> the authors site and uploading it to freebsd, then both >>>> disappeared. Another one I can recall is the gated code, similar >>>> issue. >>> Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every >>> *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd >>> (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? >> We've regularly collected and published port distfiles for at least a >> decade (with increasingly higher frequency as disk space came to >> permit). It may come as no surprise that Ted is talking out of his >> ass again :) >> >> Kris > > Ah, thanks! Good to know, and it's good news! :) > > Will distfiles for ports that are no longer in the tree > remain there as well, so that these ports can still be > compiled with an older ports tree (yes, I know about the > hairy security and dependency issues involved with old > unmaintained and even dead ports...)? Yes, as I mentioned in another reply it's been years since I have had to clean out old distfiles for space reasons, and there's no other need to do that so they will remain indefinitely. Kris
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