ports/distfiles on FTP

[Kris Kennaway]

Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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.

They were all the "right" location for a version of the port at some 
point in history, and still are correct for any remaining users of that 
version.

Kris