On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:29 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > Can we make it easier for maintainers to add files to the mirrors? When we > used to put files into subversion, it was easy for any maintainer to avoid > this problem by just checking in a snapshot. While it's undesirable to go > back to that (storing lots of binaries in our svn repo isn't a great idea), > being able to upload a snapshot again would be welcome. > > It would fix this and to some extent also make it less 'necessary' for people > to have ports fetching from source control systems (giving everyone the > benefit of having the files mirrored and cacheable).
How would you envision this capability being provided? I wouldn't want to, for example, just open up ftp write access to the distfiles server to anyone who asked for it. Would we make a web page where people can upload a distfile for a particular port? Would we make a new port command to submit a distfile? I don't really want to be in the business of distributing our own files. The purpose of the mirror is to mirror files the developers provide elsewhere. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
