Re: uploading distfiles directly to the distfiles mirror (was: Re: [144262] trunk/dports/lang/py-htmldocs/Portfile)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt  wrote:
> 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.

maybe for maintainers (or committers only)?

and probably 'sftp' instead of 'ftp'

> Would we make a web page where people can upload a distfile for a particular 
> port?

sure, that would work too.

I would think people's mirrors would go in a user directory too (similar to how 
the svn stuff worked) - so it would be obvious that it was a 
maintainer/committer sourced distfile.

> Would we make a new port command to submit a distfile?

that could work too (and might be a nice enhancement later to make it easier on 
maintainers) - but I don't think we need to wait for our (long) dev/release 
cycle to get something working.

> 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.

Sure, in the general case we shouldn't do it - but when the developer doesn't 
provide a good stable file (and/or only provides source from a source control 
system), then the best bad option is for us to create our own distfile.

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Re: uploading distfiles directly to the distfiles mirror (was: Re: [144262] trunk/dports/lang/py-htmldocs/Portfile)

[Ryan Schmidt]

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.

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