Re: Can PHP downloads be put on distcache?

From: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:50:15 UTC
> On 24 Dec 2021, at 12:24, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator <DutchDaemon@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 24/12/2021 09:08, Christian Ullrich wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> PHP have, apparently recently, broken ports downloads by putting their CDN's I-guess-you-are-not-human-so-go-away-right-now "protection" in front of MASTER_SITES=PHP.
>> 
>> In lieu of working around this by, say, downloading from GitHub [1] instead, is it possible to carry the archives on distcache, at least until the PHP people regain their senses? How do I request that from the correct people?
>> 
>> [1] MASTER_SITES=https://www.github.com/php/web-php-distributions/raw/master/
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> FreeBSD.org clusteradm <clusteradm@freebsd.org> (Cc:) - does this hat fit you?
> 
> DD.
> 

No. It’s not the task of clusteradm. Adding DIST_SUBDIR actually puts the distfiles in DISTCACHE. But now the problem is we cannot do that anymore as the captcha is in place. I am working on it and will revert back.

Kind Regards,
Moin