MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

[William Siegrist]

I already made the offer to portmgr a while back, so they know.  I  
think there needs to be some added API to macports in order to make  
the engineering a little cleaner server-side, but there hasnt been  
much discussion yet.  So if anyone wants to take the lead on behalf of  
MacPorts, I'll help/support whatever we come up with for accomplishing  
the mirroring.


-Bill



On Feb 22, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> The macports repository is the only place macports is looking for  
>>> it,
>>> so it must have been there at some point or the port would never  
>>> have
>>> passed even the most rudimentary QA.
>>
>> No, the first place it's looking for it is the ntfs-3g web site,
>> which is where it should be, only they apparently removed it because
>> it was an old version:
>
> This brings up an interesting topic that was due for discussion
> anyway:  Pretty much all the major port collections projects provide a
> distfile cache and I think it's time that MacPorts did as well.  We
> have the bandwidth, we have the disk space (I recently approved an
> upgrade to the MacOSForge XSAN array for this), so why don't we use it
> already?  Having an equivalent of FreeBSD's MASTER_SITE would be
> trivial to implement, assuming someone hasn't already (I haven't
> looked at the default fetch path recently), and there is the ancillary
> benefit of enabling institutions/universities to create their own
> caches and point this variable at it for local overrides.   It's a
> well-established fact that it can dramatically cut down on the time it
> takes to build ports, particularly if the project itself ever takes
> seriously the notion of nightly/weekly/whatever regression test  
> builds.
>
> - Jordan
>
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