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Re: Providing an easy additional way of avoiding uploading non-redistributable packages



On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:50:24PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> A frequent issue for admins is that someone is new to building packages,
> and they haven't figured out how to upload with pbulk yet, and they
> upload a package which isn't redistributable.
> 
> I am proposing an additional way to avoid this problem via mk.conf,
> which hopefully works better for people who have an awkward rsync setup
> and aren't doing uploads through pbulk's script.

They shouldn't. Really. It will also accumulate junk on the server for
no good reason.

Joerg


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