On 26/10/2006, at 6:17 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
On a couple ports I am working on, availability is only in the
form of
cvs/svn. I made a temporary prefetch section for my own
convenience which
calls up a particular revision off the server, compresses an
archive of it,
and places it in the distfiles directory (thus leaving fetch happy
as long as
checksums match). Is there a preferred way to handle these cases
other than
my temporary code or putting it on my ISP's provided webspace
which may cap
out due to too much monthly upload (and the filetypes may not even
be allowed
anyways)?
Find another place willing to host the distfiles for the ports.
Something like SourceForge or Collabnet or the FSF will generally
host projects, depending on their purpose and licensing.
Any committer can also add it to their local distfiles, which are
carried on some FreeBSD mirrors.
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