Adding distfiles to the repository

[Blair Zajac]

William Siegrist wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> List,
>>
>> I'm bringing this discussion to the list from private mail between me
>> and Blair Zajac:
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 16:18, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:57, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ryan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a copy of the iso-codes-3.1.tar.gz we can put up in
>>>>> the svn repos? Right now the ftp://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/
>>>>> pub/pkg-isocodes/ URL isn't loading at all and at some sites,
>>>>> such as my port, we cannot use ftp:// URLs and only http:// URLs,
>>>>> so having this in our repos would make it work there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Blair
>>>>
>>>> I'll fix this. See #15981.
>>>
>>> I put the tarball into our svn dist location, so it can be
>>> downloaded using http.  I don't know if the r38372 is needed, as it
>>> worked for me without this change.
>>
>> I think we should not add distfiles to the Subversion repository
>> anymore. They take up lots of room. I could make thousands of
>> portfile edits in the amount of disk space used by a single distfile.
>> I would rather use 1K in the repository to add a new distfiles mirror
>> to the portfile than use 5MB to store a copy of the distfile. There
>> is "no way" to remove data from the repository "ever" [1] so it has
>> always seemed like the wrong place to put distfiles. And thankfully
>> we now have a much better solution in the distfiles mirror. I think
>> the only reason to add a distfile to the repository is if the
>> distfiles mirror is unable to mirror it for some technical reason,
>> and that should be rare.
>>
>> I don't know if the Guide mentions putting distfiles into the
>> repository, but if it does, it should be changed to talk about the
>> distfiles mirror.
>>
> 
> 
> The distfile mirror actually got the iso-codes 3.1 tarball only an hour 
> ago due to a sync issue (it still saw v2.0). I noticed Blair had to 
> commit the tarball which is what prompted me to check the mirror status.
> 
> But in general, I agree people should rely on that server instead of 
> committing distfiles. I believe the plan is for MPWA to provide an 
> upload mechanism to manually add files.
> 
> If someone has trouble getting a distfile, and the mirror also doesnt 
> have it, they can submit a ticket to server/hosting and I'll try to get 
> it cleaned up. Note that the servers cannot retrieve files via FTP 
> either, so ports with only FTP will always be a problem, but I can 
> manually add the file so there should be no permanently missing 
> distfiles.  Also, please allow at least 24hr after a portfile is updated 
> before complaining though, as the mirror is only updated daily.

Thanks for this info.  Can we up the cron from 24 to something on a shorter basis?

Blair