Impact of missing IPv6 support on portstree

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016, at 02:48, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> 
> On 06.01.2016 20:51, Mark Felder wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Therefore i wrote:
> "To check if a port is available for IPv6 i excluded the 
> distcache.freebsd.org host, because it is not part of the port."
> 

I missed this statement, sorry.

I do agree we need to reach out to these parties.

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld at FreeBSD.org