Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:36 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> cpghost wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Another problem w

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
cpghost wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few w

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the > >> original source from the author's site. I've had a few where

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
James Tanis wrote: "cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The ports would still go to the primary sites (to conserve bandwidth), but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available on freebsd. I think his problem comes from the fact that some ports don't do this, not that it

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?)

2008-07-23 Thread James Tanis
"cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ports would still go to the primary sites (to conserve bandwidth), > but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available > on freebsd. I think his problem comes from the fact that some ports don't do this, not that it isn't a good idea

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Seaman wrote: cpghost wrote: Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? Some might say that this already happens. Well, it's on ftp.

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost interest, stopped payi

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
cpghost wrote: Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? Some might say that this already happens. Well, it's on ftp.freebsd.org rather than

Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?)

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the > original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the > author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost > interest, stopped paying whateve