On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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, BlairI'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.
The distfile mirror actually got the iso-codes 3.1 tarball only an hour ago due to a sync issue (it still saw v2.0). I noticed Blair had to commit the tarball which is what prompted me to check the mirror status.
But in general, I agree people should rely on that server instead of committing distfiles. I believe the plan is for MPWA to provide an upload mechanism to manually add files.
If someone has trouble getting a distfile, and the mirror also doesnt have it, they can submit a ticket to server/hosting and I'll try to get it cleaned up. Note that the servers cannot retrieve files via FTP either, so ports with only FTP will always be a problem, but I can manually add the file so there should be no permanently missing distfiles. Also, please allow at least 24hr after a portfile is updated before complaining though, as the mirror is only updated daily.
-Bill
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