RFC: Remove single MASTER_SITE warning in portlint?
Eitan Adler
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Fri Jun 27 06:08:52 UTC 2014
On 26 June 2014 22:50, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Apparently there was some discussion on IRC about this. A PR (Bugzilla) has
> been opened requesting the portlint warning about only a single MASTER_SITE
> to be done away with.
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191079
>
> This was added before my time with portlint, and I could go either way on
> it. We do have a list of CDN MASTER_SITE aliases to avoid warning for silly
> things. But the question remains: do we need this warning at all?
+1 to killing it. There are many ports for which there is only a
single upstream location. Larger ports with better upstream
infrastructure typically already have multiple MASTER_SITES.
It adds noise when looking for "ports with portlint issues".
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Eitan Adler
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