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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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> Last rites cancelled; found a version bump'ed distfile via icculus, so |
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> this one can live a little longer. |
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I have once asked Robin to archive the distfiles for a commercial |
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package which has RESTRICT=mirror. My reasoning at the time was that |
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if upstream disappears there's a good chance, depending on why that |
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happens, we can qualify the software as abandonware and the no mirror |
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restriction may become moot. At that point we could push the distfiles |
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to our mirrors. Note that this particular software still requires |
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original installation media (on top of the 1GB+ distfiles) and a |
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minimum of 1 but up to 3 valid license keys to install and then run. |
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My point here is we could do this preemptively and more or less |
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systematically in order to avoid being in the situation above. This |
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could even be easily automated. The worst that can happen is we |
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archive a few distfiles for nothing, which isn't a big price to pay. |
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Denis. |
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