William Siegrist wrote: > 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, >>>>> 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. >> > > > 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.
Thanks for this info. Can we up the cron from 24 to something on a shorter basis? Blair _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
