Ports distfiles mirror -> e.g. ftp://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/distfiles/

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:00:52 +0100
Matthias Petermann wrote:


> Is there some automatic mechanism in place which does this mirroring,
> or is this done manually from a ports committer once he commits a new
> or updated port? I'm just curious because I can find the distfiles
> from some of my maintained ports there, and from some not.

I'm not sure about that specific URL, but IIRC FreeBSD keeps a cache of
distfiles downloaded for package building purposes and makes it
available as a last-resort mirror.