A place to upload distfiles?

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 24 11:39:14 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:58:28AM -0800, freebsd at bitfreak.org wrote:
> I maintain a port for which the vendor provided me a customized distfile.  
> They don't have it available for download from their site, so I need to 
> find a home for it.  Does the FreeBSD Project or Foundation provide hosting 
> space for such cases or do I need to find my own space?

Committers have the ability to host such distfiles using the
MASTER_SITE_LOCAL variable.  You'll have to provide the person who
commits the port and updates with some way to obtain the files, but as
long as they are fully redistributable, we can do that.

-- Brooks
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