Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/print/tex-texlive-scripts

[David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

(sorry, I'm a bit behind on my mail)

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:55:49PM -0700, Min Sik Kim wrote:
 > > Maybe we should set up some mechanism where we take snapshots of the
 > > distfiles and put the snapshots on ftp.n.o?
 > 
 > I put distfiles on ftp.n.o whenever I update individual packages.
 > So we already maintain all distfiles of tex-* packages on ftp.n.o.
 > 
 > This time, however, they regenerated all distfiles when they
 > released TeX Live 2010 a few days ago.  It may happen once a year.
 > To prevent this in the future, we should set MASTER_SITES of tex-*
 > packages to ftp.n.o.  Since this has annoyed many pkgsrc users,
 > I'll make the change if admin@ says OK.

I see you've done this, and hopefully it'll result in fewer problems
going forward. (Maybe the texlive guys can be convinced to do real
releases sometime. Ha.)

Thanks for taking care of all the tex stuff, btw. It looks like a lot
of work and I'm glad I don't have to do it...

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost