Port lint warning: must have an HTTP master_site

William Siegrist wsiegrist at apple.com
Mon Jun 14 10:40:23 PDT 2010


On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Toby Peterson wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> I'm aware of a company that doesn't have outgoing FTP, so ports with only FTP sites cannot be downloaded.  How about having a port lint check that warns if it cannot find an HTTP master_site?
> 
> It'll fall back to distfiles, which is http.
> 


Too bad the company hosting the primary distfiles is one of those, such that ports with only FTP hosted files do not get mirrored. It may be worth a lint warning. 

-Bill



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