Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 05:50:14 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/97120: GPSMan 6.2.1 -> 6.3 Message-ID: <20060511125014.GV545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <200605111031.k4BAVAb0019915@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200605111031.k4BAVAb0019915@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:31:10AM +0000, Volker Stolz wrote: > Synopsis: GPSMan 6.2.1 -> 6.3 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: vs > State-Changed-When: Thu May 11 10:30:53 UTC 2006 > State-Changed-Why: > => Attempting to fetch from http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/gpsmanhtml/. > fetch: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/gpsmanhtml/gpsman-6.3.tgz: size mismatch: expected 1151425, actual 1152069 Nice catch. :-( I've had discussions about this sort of thing with the author of the code previously, but the last time was quite a while back, so he apparently forgot that even changing date-stamps in HTML comments is enough of a change so that our tools notice that something's different, and stop the process. (I fetched a new tarball, saw the difference mentioned, unpacked each, & did a recursive diff. Such date-stamps were the only changes; there were about a dozen of them.) I've sent the author a reminder of how this stuff works, a request to be notified if he changes the tarball for any reason at all, and a request to let me know when the tarball for GPSMan 6.3 is stable. I also stated that I wouldn't be sending in the updated information (to allow the port to build ) until I got the above information from him. I'll submit another follow-up with the revised patch once that happens -- unless there really are substantiative changes between then & now, in which case I'll request that this PR be closed & I'll file a new one. I don't expect the latter to happen, but stranger things have. :-} (I also suggested to the author that there might be some value if he were to publish such validity-checking information as the tarball's size and MD5 checksum on the Web page for fetching it. We'll see what happens.) Thanks again; sorry for the hassle. Peace, david (current hat: astro/gpsman maintainer) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Spam received via "opt-out" lists is still spam, and should be treated as such. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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