Fwd: Archive fetch problem

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Oct 13 16:37:50 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-14 02:21 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> I asked the ever-helpful Bill to pull some numbers on the types of archives being requested:
> 
>> There are 11637954 hits for tbz2 and 1874377 hits for tgz. 
> 
> It seems we have quite a few users that are setup to use tgz archives.
> 
> Can we ensure the upgrade path fixes this, or do we need to provide both archive types?

Well, we usually don't want to mess with settings that are explicitly
specified, because that may well be what the user really wants. It would
certainly be nice to fix this for users that do just want the new
default, but is that worth meddling with the settings of those that don't?

- Josh


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