[75877] trunk/dports/databases

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> * use dist_subdir
>> * make sure livecheck works, and use livecheck periodically
>> * monitor the issue tracker; users may find an update before you do and file a ticket about a checksum mismatch
>> * update the port when a new distfile is available
>> 
>> This is how I handle curl-ca-bundle.
> 
> FTR, I think letting the port break every time there's an upstream
> release is a terrible approach.

Seems like it would be much better to mirror the file somewhere stable and just monitor for new upstream releases (so you don't have to have the port break to find out that it needs an update).

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