Re: package with regularly changing distfiles

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> As a result, I am still interested in the answer to my original
> inquiry: what is the process of updating distfiles on ftp.netbsd.org
> as fallbacks when the original ones disappear and how often does that
> happen?

For the usual cases, there is a weekly cron job that fetches distfiles
from the master sites.

The suggested solution in this case is to put the file manually (i.e.
scp) in the distfiles/ directory on the ftp server, though.
 Thomas