Re: CVS unavailable

> Tim Welch <lp -at- thepentagon.org> writes:

> I'm working on the FreeBSD port of foomatic-*, which used to fetch
> foomatic from cvs directly. I'm attempting to convert it to use the
> http download area.

Ah, there you are!  Since I couldn't remember your name, I just turned
off anoncvs and figured you'd turn up sooner or later ;)

About which - I awoke one day to find port people pegging the line.
Apparently some event in freebsd (a new release?) recently triggered
lots of folks to build the port.  Unfortunately, as we added a bunch
of PPD and other data to CVS not too long ago, this added up to a bit
of a problem.


> The download section seems to deny downloads to wget and fetch

Yes, these agents (wget in particular) are popular with misguided
users who attempt to download the entire website.  While this is a
silly thing to do, I wouldn't mind except that the default recursive
snarf settings in this program are a bit rude - there is no inter-get
delay, for example.

Please use wget -U 'FreeBSD-foomatic-port" or the like; then we can
take affirmative measures to keep your use working in the future.

Please also work with Till to make sure you are downloading an
appropriate minimum set of data.  Probably the snapshots qualify.

Ideally freebsd would provide a mirror of whatever it needs from our
download area for its users rather than all port users downloading
from us.  We aren't particularly set up to provide this magnitude of
distribution.

--
Grant Taylor
Embedded Linux Consultant
http://www.picante.com/