ports/distfiles on FTP

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> said:
> 
> > We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal. 
> > There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still 
> > needed even years later.
> 
> There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages
> (particularly the static package sets included with releases).

Fair enough.  However, find . -exec basename {} \; | sort | uniq -d
finds plenty of duplicates, including some monsters like
OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz, for instance.

./danfe