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Re: ideas 3


From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:52:09 +0200

Ed wrote:

I would suggest to promote the broad adoption of bzip2 format for [...] distfiles.

I guess you can't control this, you have to take what is offered.


Now that you are working on pkg management tools I'd like to see a special
focus on HTTP only transfers. FTP is a big problem for firewall and NATted
users (especially active ftp) and also needs a lot of sockets on the server.


I'd like to see HTTP as default method to fetch distfiles [...].

Again: for distfiles you have to use whatever is offered. You can use MASTER_SORT_REGEX to prefer HTTP transfers, but some distfiles are only available via ftp.


-Oliver




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