List, I'm bringing this discussion to the list from private mail between me and Blair Zajac:
On Jul 17, 2008, at 16:18, Blair Zajac wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:57, Blair Zajac wrote: >> >>> Hi Ryan, >>> >>> Do you have a copy of the iso-codes-3.1.tar.gz we can put up in >>> the svn repos? Right now the ftp://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/ >>> pub/pkg-isocodes/ URL isn't loading at all and at some sites, >>> such as my port, we cannot use ftp:// URLs and only http:// URLs, >>> so having this in our repos would make it work there. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Blair >> >> I'll fix this. See #15981. > > I put the tarball into our svn dist location, so it can be > downloaded using http. I don't know if the r38372 is needed, as it > worked for me without this change. I think we should not add distfiles to the Subversion repository anymore. They take up lots of room. I could make thousands of portfile edits in the amount of disk space used by a single distfile. I would rather use 1K in the repository to add a new distfiles mirror to the portfile than use 5MB to store a copy of the distfile. There is "no way" to remove data from the repository "ever" [1] so it has always seemed like the wrong place to put distfiles. And thankfully we now have a much better solution in the distfiles mirror. I think the only reason to add a distfile to the repository is if the distfiles mirror is unable to mirror it for some technical reason, and that should be rare. I don't know if the Guide mentions putting distfiles into the repository, but if it does, it should be changed to talk about the distfiles mirror. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
