Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 05/09/2001 21:49:35
>The distfile to which our package relates is different to the one on
>sourceforge. The alternatives are thus to: (a) use the distfile on
>sourceforge, and update the package according to what has been changed
>in the meantime (and for which I'm not qualified), or (b) continue to
>use the distfile that is in place on ftp.netbsd.org. I have not had
>good experience downloading distfiles from sourceforge recently (and I
>have downloaded a lot of them), and so I chose to use ftp.netbsd.org.
I understand that there are two choices, but I cannot understand
why you have picked (b). download performance/slowness/whatever is
certainly location dependent, and MASTER_SITES settings affects
anyone on the globe. i don't think it reasonable to pick
ftp.netbsd.org from download issue in your location.
or is the download issue universal to everyone? any stats/whatever?
and for (a), do you have ideas why they replaced the distfile on
sourceforge? didn't they fix any critical bug? (if we pick
ftp.netbsd.org distfile we would use a version with more bug)
itojun