On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> When a package gets updated so that it will fetch a different, typically
> later, dist file, what happens to the dist file on the NetBSD servers?
> Is there a process that periodically scanns packages and fetches the
> required distfiles to hold them on the NetBSD servers?

A "make mirror-distfiles" is ran nightly, to make sure all distfiles are 
on the FTP server. I don't know if old distfiles are removed at all - the 
GPL dictates us to keep some of them for at least three years, plus people 
who use older pkgsrc for a reason may appreciate them, esp. if they are 
nowhere to find otherwise.

(On the other hand, I hear mirrors getting annoyed that "NetBSD" is 
getting so big, and I guess old distfiles & packages take some share of 
that!).


  - Hubert

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