distfile questions

[Sam Lawrance]

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.