MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:08 PM, William Siegrist wrote:

> The server would grab distfiles during post-commit I imagine  
> (assuming the checksums get changed, patchfiles added, etc). So  
> similar to the way we handle linting of Portfiles during post- 
> commit, we would check for these changes.

It could be done that way, but I think it's overkill to try and add  
hooks for when ports are added when we can simply fetch in batch mode  
once a night or so.  As I noted in my previous posting, support for  
that already exists.

- Jordan