Files disappearing from distfiles mirror

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> What would cause a file to disappear from our distfiles mirrors? I
> thought they were supposed to be a more or less permanent archive of all
> distfiles over time. I know we have a policy of not mirroring some
> ports, but that's not this.
> 
> According to Google, the Norwegian mirror had the file osx2x-2.4.tar.gz
> with a modification date of October 31, 2008:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adistfiles.macports.org+osx2x-2.4.tar.gz
> 
> 
> In case Google has updated its listing, this is what the above URL shows
> as I write this email:
> 
> Index of /osx2x
> Parent Directory, -. osx2x-2.4.tar.gz, 31-Oct-2008 08:03, 200K.
> Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) Server at trd.no.distfiles.macports.org Port 80.
> trd.no.distfiles.macports.org/osx2x/?C=D;O=A
> 
> If I look at that URL today, there is nothing there. There was also
> nothing on distfiles.macports.org yesterday. The file is back on the
> California mirror now, and will be on the Norwegian mirror again soon,
> because I committed r47558:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47558
> 
> But I would like to know how it came to be that the file was on all of
> our mirrors in October 2008 but then disappeared from two of them since
> then.

Portmirror deletes files when the checksums don't match.

- Josh