Avoid mirroring a distfile

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 2, 2012, at 6:27 AM, Andrea D'Amore wrote:

> Due to recent discussion on Virtualbox [1] I replaced my binary with
> Macports provided application, in doing so I needed the VirtualBox
> Extpack for handling USB 2.0 in host OS.
> I'd like to add a port for this extension, say virtualbox-extpack,
> depending on virtualbox port. Checking the license [2] and relative
> FAQ I see point 7. at [3]
> 
> "Can I redistribute the VirtualBox binaries?
> No. The Personal Use and Evaluation License allows you to download the
> VirtualBox binaries for personal and academic use and for evaluation,
> but it does not give you the right to redistribute these binaries."
> 
> Since the extpack come as binary this means that it cannot be mirrored
> on Macports distfiles folder and its mirrors.
> 
> I never digged into the mirroring thing, is a distfile mirrored
> automatically or by hand?
> Can portfile specify some keyword against this?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrea
> 
> [1] http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2012-January/027181.html
> [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
> [3] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31180

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)