[27512] distfiles

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Aug 6, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>> Actually, correct location is where the file was when you first
>> committed it ;-) Distfiles are located in user specific dirs for
>> distfiles belonging to ports they maintain or, in the case of
>> nomaintainer, in the general dir. But you maintain slib so the  
>> distfile
>> should be in your personal distfile directory.
>
> But MacPorts has this URL as fallback directory for every port.
> Therefore it is in the right place as the report about slib on the  
> users
> list [1] shows.


	Yes, true. But still, mas is the maintainer of slib and it is our  
policy to put our distfiles (for ports we maintain) in our own  
distfile directories. Fetching from /distfiles/mas is as simple as  
listing "macports:mas" as the master_sites entry for the port.

	We can change that policy if we find something better, of course,  
I'm not opposing improvements. I'm just advocating consistency, as  
long as we have a policy lets stick to it ;-)

	Regards,...


-jmpp