Zafer Aydoğan wrote: Hi Zafer! > 2008/8/12 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:03:26PM +0200, Zafer Aydo?an wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be great, if pkgsrc would provide all source files > >> (distfiles) by themselves, instead of downloading it from the authors > >> server ? > > > > Doesn't work as a not so small number of distfiles can't be > > redistributed. Otherwise, what Al says. > > > > Joerg > > > > > I don't agree on the numbers, but it is irrelevant anyway. This files > are not on our servers at the moment. They would be fetched, the old > fashioned way (like it is now). > > But I can give you some stats about packages that can't be fetched > from original sources. > About 19% of the files in pkgsrc fail to get fetched. They are > downloaded through master_backup. Which means, that every fifth file > is coming from either ftp.netbsd.org or > ftp.fi.netbsd.org anyway :) They are usually outdated packages, and they don't need mirroring but updating. If you find a file you cant fetch help us fixing it please. :) -- Adam
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