Re: openjdk-1.7.141-20170813 missing on netbsd distfiles sites

[Connor McLaughlan <cont6pro3%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 8:07 PM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 07:06:08PM +0100, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
> > the openjdk-1.7.141 distfile is missing on the netbsd sites:
> > http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/openjdk7/openjdk-1.7.141-20170813.tar.xz
> > http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/openjdk7/openjdk-1.7.141-20170813.tar.xz
> >
> > While it certainly is a very old distfile and the pkg itself has been
> > removed from pkgsrc, i wonder why i the file was removed, when older
> > releases in the same directory are still there?
>
> Unused distfiles are removed from ftp.NetBSD.org for space reasons
> regularly (about quarterly).
>
> For legal reasons (source code for binary packages availability), they
> are moved to archive.netbsd.org.
>
> The file you are looking for can be found e.g. here:
>
> http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/distfiles/2020Q4/openjdk7/
>
> (I liked when the package was removed and then inside the next
> quarterly directory to find it.)
>  Thomas

Thank you. I didn't know that.

Regards,
Connor