hunspell, mythes and thesaurus bad idea?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:05:38 +0800, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:01:56PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seems it was a really bad idea to add those dictionaries to the
>> portstree at least the non versionned one as they keep moving.
>>
>> I'm thinking on removing them.
>>
>> Do you have an opinion, solution to fix this ?
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Bapt
>
> Hi all,
>
> IMHO, it would be a feasible solution to change MASTER_SITES to 
> LOCAL.
> Though the distfiles may not be up to date, it at least guarantees 
> the
> build process won't break due to checksum mismatch.
>
> It also has a minor benefit. While updating textproc/sk-mythes, I 
> found
> that www.sk-spell.sk.cx is unstable (DNS/server) today. LOCAL is
> *stable* as it mirrored worldwide.
>
> At last, we could write a script to detect rerolled tarballs, extract
> date string from webpage, and notify office@ members. Then, a 
> committer
> would update LOCAL and commit this update.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,


Nice idea