Distfile mirroring exclusions

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 3 08:21:01 PST 2012


On 2012-1-3 18:47 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Dec 26, 2011, at 16:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> Looking on the main distfiles mirror, I see we do not have any distfiles there for molden, but we do have some for metis. If we're not supposed to be distributing metis, we need to fix the script(s) and delete these files from all mirrors. metis was added to the exclusion list in r84526 by Joshua but the commit message didn't give any details.
> 
> Joshua, can you speak to this point? Do we need to be excluding metis distfiles from the mirrors?

Maybe; I don't even remember why I added that. Presumably I saw
something to indicate that the metis source was not freely distributable.

- Josh


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