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

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