On 09/07/2010 06:57 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>
> heh, the distfile was just rerolled with a few things added, like ak, fo,
> zh_CN added. :)
>
> Is there a different mailing list I need to be on to get notifications of
> events like that?
>
> Changing the distfile without changing the version number in it causes lots of
> problems for FreeBSD's packaging stuff. :(
>
> Essentially what happens is the md5 and sha256 of the distfile are recorded in
> the ports tree.  When the distfile is changed they stop matching.  The ports
> tree tries all the mirrors, and when it can't get the right one it falls back
> to a cached version at *.freebsd.org, which will work, so the changes never
> get into the ports tree without someone noticing and kicking things.
>

Such behavior will break all source-based Linux distributions out there 
too. Upstream *must* release every new tarball with updated version 
number. Something like 2.1.1.1 would work.

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