Impact of missing IPv6 support on portstree (was: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign)

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 6 20:02:25 UTC 2016



On Wed, Dec 16, 2015, at 03:16, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> 
> In conclusion: if you having an IPv6 only machine, you could not build 
> 69.4 % of the ports.
> 

distcache.freebsd.org is reachable over IPv6. Distfiles should *still*
be fetchable over IPv6, but I don't know if there are edge cases where
distfiles aren't cached eg due to the MASTER_SITES being CHEESESHOP
(pypi), etc.


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  Mark Felder
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