Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am currently testing my fink mirror patch. It adds a "fink" mirror that is intended to hold a mirror of every source tarball, so there will no longer be any breaking URLs.
Sounds like a great idea in general. However, there probably should be mechanisms to exclude some packages:
- Some packages are just too large and obscure. For instance, if I were to do a 5 piece endgame tablebase package for crafty (which
I haven't done yet), we're talking 6G of disk space, and even the partial 6 piece tablebases are more than that. These packages
are not frivolous at all, but only a handful of people are going to be interested.
- Are we sure we have the right to mirror the source to any fink package, or could some of them be licensed under licenses that
forbid mirroring?
As a further concern, the mirror should probably occasionally re-verify MD5-Sums and refetch if they no longer match.
Matthias
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