Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:20:41 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports distfiles mirror -> e.g. ftp://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/distfiles/ Message-ID: <20131101132041.2704f2b7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <52729AD4.4050408@petermann-it.de> References: <52729AD4.4050408@petermann-it.de>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:00:52 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: > Is there some automatic mechanism in place which does this mirroring, > or is this done manually from a ports committer once he commits a new > or updated port? I'm just curious because I can find the distfiles > from some of my maintained ports there, and from some not. I'm not sure about that specific URL, but IIRC FreeBSD keeps a cache of distfiles downloaded for package building purposes and makes it available as a last-resort mirror.
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