distfile questions
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Oct 25 20:17:10 UTC 2006
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
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