MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX in bsd.sites.mk

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Thu Jan 19 11:52:44 UTC 2012


Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:09:10PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> > I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with
> > other people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if
> > it's explicitly developed by Fedora.
>
> Correct.  dougb has pointed this out before and no one has taken
> the cycles to go act on it.  Consider this a task that needs
> volunteers.
>
> (A similiar caveat applies to the Debian and NetBSD sites;
> I believe it was Debian he flagged previously.)

Isn't this concern orthogonal to the original one about maintaining
a (set of) correct MASTER_SITE setting(s), for use by such ports as
can legitimately use Fedora/Debian/NetBSD/whatever sites?


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