Adding distfiles to the repository

[Blair Zajac]

William Siegrist wrote:
> 
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 17:01, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>
>>> William Siegrist wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> This may be relevant for the php5-devel port as well. It's currently 
>> tracking php 5.2 release candidates but I now have a request from a 
>> user who wants to try a feature only available in php 5.3. The php 
>> team provides snapshot tarballs of php 5.3, but they're generated 
>> every two hours, and disappear after ten hours. So I would have to 
>> make sure to time my commit such that it's less than ten hours until 
>> the portmirror process runs on the distfiles mirror machine. Which I 
>> could do. But it would be convenient if I wouldn't have to remember to 
>> do that. Who knows what time of day I might feel like working on my 
>> ports.
>>
> 
> 
> The current process takes 6-8 hours to run and eats a decent amount of 
> cpu cycles because it tries to mirror every variant of every port, so 
> doing it more often wont work well on the server. Like I've said before, 
> this allows for daily re-trying if the mirroring fails the first day.  
> What I could do is add a mirror attempt during post-commit as well. So 
> every port gets mirrored upon commit and then once a day after that. 
> When you commit, if your distfile is unavailable, it'll get retried the 
> next morning during the daily job.  I think this is reasonable and 
> covers everyone's needs.

That sounds good.

<joking>
Now we can just spam commits to get it to retry :)
</joking>

Blair