Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> The reason it's not shipped as part of the release (or even tagged) is
> because it's dependent on external sources.  I.e. the external maintainer
> of some package could release a new version, delete the old, and the
> pkgsrc for that would have to be updated.  It's just too (potentially)
> volatile.

That's the reason why FreeBSD keeps distfiles on ftp.freebsd.org, in case 
they move from the MASTER_SITE(s). As I just wrote in my previous mail,
I'd seriously vote for distributing pkgsrc with 1.3 as the rest of the
operating system source is.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>