distfile questions

[Chuck Swiger]

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.

-- 
-Chuck