From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 6:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sagan.beanstalk.net (sagan.beanstalk.net [12.162.34.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A5E37B436 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:39:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fcoffice.ptfd.org (unverified [12.162.35.159]) by sagan.beanstalk.net (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with SMTP id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:41:54 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael W.Holdeman Organization: PTFD To: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: bidwatcher Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:39:31 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: FreeBSD Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02032009393102.07338@fcoffice.ptfd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After updateing from the last port update, It seems to be working fine. Just a very few problems addidg auctions, but if I attempt it usually the second or third time it takes. Mike On Wednesday 20 March 2002 02:23, you wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Michael W.Holdeman wrote: > > Matthew, > > I got the new port tonight via cvsup, it does download the correct file > > now however it fails to install the patches. > > > > It appears the new version needs new patch files, which I have looked at > > but have NO IDEA what I am doing. This is something I'm interested in > > learning, but this week I'm too covered up (trying to track my auctions > > with web-browsers LOL) > > > > Mike > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 16:38, you wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:36:03PM -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > > > Where do we get your port? > > > > > > It's checked into CVS. Get it however you normally update your Ports > > > Collection (e.g. cvsup). There may be a delay before it's propagated > > > to the cvsup servers. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I think the FreeBSD port was updated twice in the last few hours (by > Matthew Hunt). Thanks Matthew! > > However bidwatcher has a problem with some auctions (not being able > to get the data for them) that is being worked on, and if you want > the very latest, you have to get the sources by CVS from sourceforge.net > and build it yourself. (Keeping up with changes outside of releases > is not the porter's responsiblity.) > > It's useful if you do this to build the FreeBSD port first so all > the dependencies (and it has a lot) get installed. > > It's interesting that bidwatcher is being run on a couple of Linux > servers and (on one of them at least) available "free" but with a > fee for each auction on which the bidder wins, so the bidwatcher > program (which snipes, or bids in the last few seconds of the auction) > is running on the server and the user has a Windows interface from a > browser. > > Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message