Avoid mirroring a distfile

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

In the case of a Portfile with subports, would this cause the other ports/subports in the Portfile to _not_ be mirrored?

Brad

On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:53 AM, William Siegrist wrote:

> You can email me to add an exception to the mirroring process to not mirror this port. All I need is the name of the port. You should email me before committing the portfile. 
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 6:27 AM, Andrea D'Amore <and.damore at macports.org> 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
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