Subject: Re: HEADS UP: NetBSD ftp-server: packages/distfiles cleanup
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/19/2000 09:36:04
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:18:47AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just a short heads-up:
> At the end of next week, the distfiles directory on ftp.netbsd.org
> will be cleaned up, removing all distfiles that aren't needed by the
> current pkgsrc.
> 
> If you still want some of the older distfiles, please get them NOW
> (or update to a newer pkgsrc).

Doesn't the GPL impose to make sources available for binary packages we
distribute ? If so some distfiles can't be removed.

I'm all for this cleanup otherwise; this will free some disk space
on mirrors.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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