[arch-general] package sources on ftp.archlinux.org

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:57, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> The reason for doing so is simple: the TeXLive license *requires* us to
>>>> provide the sources :)
>>>>
>>>> BTW if you have problems with my texlive-scripts, feel free to ask ;)
>>>
>>> Aren't the docs in the same source tarballs? Couldn't you just pull
>>> the existing texlive tarballs and use those?
>>
>> Don't we have a special script that downloads sources of packages?
>> Why the sources of texlive are in /other/texlive/ then?
>>
>
> You are confusing sources and sourceballs.
>
> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other is intendend for source tarballs for
> projects that are no longer hosted upstream, SCM snapshots,  homemade
> projects, etc.
>
> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/sources  is intendend for sourceballs of
> packages where the license forces us to also host the sources (GPL2,
> GPL, etc.).

And technically, those packages that have sources in /other/ can be
skipped by the sourceball script, as it makes it redundant. But then
again, it's not much extra space :)