distfiles, please add @freebsd.org

[Olivier Duchateau]

2014-01-28 Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com>:
> Hi xfce at FreeBSD.org
> www/midori/Makefile
> MAINTAINER=     xfce at FreeBSD.org
>
> Suggestion/Request: Please add ftp.freebsd.org to list of distfiles
> & park a copy there, because I just checked on http://midori.org & they
> only store latest to download there, no option to download older, which means
> our ports 10.0-RELEASE tree is already broken, as release ports/ wants
>
> midori_0.5.6_all_.tar.bz2
>
> & http://www.midori-browser.org/download/source/
> only offers tar.bz2  ·  0.5.7  ·  1.1 MB
>
> So all releases of FreeBSD are currently doomed to be obsolete
> almost immediately.

Hi,

I don't understand your complaint, why add freebsd distfiles directory.
If you want to download previous and latest versions, real host is
launchpad.net [1] (this host is piece of shit, when we need to fetch
tarball).

[1] https://launchpad.net/midori

>
> PS Yes I'm aware of & make fetches there, but it doesnt solve the
> problem of release.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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