On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> How would you envision this capability being provided? I wouldn't want to,
> for example, just open up ftp write access to the distfiles server to anyone
> who asked for it.
maybe for maintainers (or committers only)?
and probably 'sftp' instead of 'ftp'
> Would we make a web page where people can upload a distfile for a particular
> port?
sure, that would work too.
I would think people's mirrors would go in a user directory too (similar to how
the svn stuff worked) - so it would be obvious that it was a
maintainer/committer sourced distfile.
> Would we make a new port command to submit a distfile?
that could work too (and might be a nice enhancement later to make it easier on
maintainers) - but I don't think we need to wait for our (long) dev/release
cycle to get something working.
> I don't really want to be in the business of distributing our own files. The
> purpose of the mirror is to mirror files the developers provide elsewhere.
Sure, in the general case we shouldn't do it - but when the developer doesn't
provide a good stable file (and/or only provides source from a source control
system), then the best bad option is for us to create our own distfile.
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Daniel J. Luke
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