Uploading a source file to packages.macports.org

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>>> Most hosting places have some free storage they provide, tools devs are probably already using: Dropbox, Bitcasa, Github, even Amazon.
>> 
>> sure, but it seems silly to have to rely on a 3rd party just to bootstrap the macports mirror.
> 
> That's the thing: it sounds like it's only suppose to be a mirror.


well, we used to have people put files in part of our svn repo for things that didn't have a good master site (and the mirror could just be a mirror).

At some point, we decided that this was bad, and told people to stop doing it - without having a good self-serve replacement method.
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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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