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Re: Berlios Open Source repository to shut down by end of 2011



On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 09:45:21PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 02:50:37PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>  > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Georg Schwarz wrote:
>  > >What should we do about packages whose upstream maintainers do
>  > >not move to another site in time?
>  > 
>  > We do cache distfiles on ftp.netbsd.org (assuming this wasn't changed),
>  > so nothing needs to be done immediately.
> 
> Unless there are packages whose license doesn't allow that, in which
> case someone should try to get in touch with upstream...

In many cases, I've found out that FreeBSD doesn't care... much. so you'll
find a lot of distfiles there.

(it's still a good idea to contact upstream, obviously).


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