On 05/01/2010 9:22 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: >>> 1) Should packages marked as Restrictive be able to check mirrors if >>> they can't find the source upstream? >> >> If the sources are legally redistributable and therefore mirror-able, >> that sounds reasonable.
> There are definitely cases in which no permission to distribute source > has been given. That's why, when we set up distfiles, we extended the > policy on non-distribution to include "not mirrored on our distfiles > servers". Right, but this currently covers both no-binary-distribution and no-binary-or-source-distribution licenses. Which is why I suggested having a new Restrictive subvariant to allow the former license to be have source mirroring by Fink. This also comes back to the first suggestion in my original post: let the package search in mirrors for the source, even if it's marked restrictive. If it really is restricted, the distfiles backends will not mirror it and the package fetch will 404 anyway. If it is available because of a non-restricted variant (or say upstream gave permission to have it mirrored), then it works. (this assumes distfiles is set up correctly vis a vis license restrictions, and that distfiles and fink don't use the same code to fetch sources) I realize that this takes coding, and I don't know Perl so I am in no position to provide patches (or expect/demand immediate fixes from others) so I'm looking at this more from a user experience point of view, where sources can and frequently do disappear, usually through download server reorganization, and that it can be frustrating for the user (there's also a bug on having MirrorLast set, but I'm still writing that up with clear situations). The OpenSSL/GPL 'conflict' is probably the main source of this issue, but given the response rate I get when I pass on my buildworld results to maintainers (even for simple crashes like missing symbols from the .la cleanup), I don't forsee much of a migration from the 'holdout' maintainers to system-openssl happening. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
