From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 12:58:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00295106566C for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 618538FC17 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2011 12:58:28 -0000 Received: from g230085118.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO apollo.emma.line.org) [92.230.85.118] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 25 Aug 2011 14:58:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19DVykRY4JDCyyzNKI/P4T+k5m0D6z+4ic6ymPVX/ 3JzSYfZts0erfl Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B00223CF4F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E5646EC.9050600@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:58:20 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <201108210630.p7L6UDoS091751@koala.droso.net> <20110822192636.GA56437@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20110823191036.GA39310@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4E550102.6070804@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <4E550102.6070804@aldan.algebra.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:30 -0000 Am 24.08.2011 15:47, schrieb Mikhail T.: > On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>>>> >> >portname: sysutils/cpuburn >>>> >> Actually, the mastersite has been discontinued by the ISP. It >>>> looks >>>> >> like it's still available elsewhere but I can't find a replacement >>>> >> mastersite. >>> > >>> >So this one is correct??? >> It seems to be - which is unfortunate. > Can it be unbroken by using the Internet archive? > > --- Makefile 2 Aug 2011 17:03:41 -0000 1.9 > +++ Makefile 24 Aug 2011 13:46:21 -0000 > @@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ > PORTVERSION= 1.4 > CATEGORIES= sysutils > -MASTER_SITES= http://pages.sbcglobal.net/redelm/ > +MASTER_SITES= > http://web.archive.org/web/20070304200856/http://pages.sbcglobal.net/redelm/ > > DISTNAME= cpuburn_${PORTVERSION:S/./_/g} > EXTRACT_SUFX= _tar.gz > > If so, quite a few other victims of this latest purging can be given a > new life. Yours, Wrong way. Either you become or find the/a new upstream maintainer or it gets removed. We don't need to prolong life of otherwise dead software. Again, FreeBSD ports are not a museum. For further arguments, Chris has linked to an earlier message I'd sent. If a port is really that important, someone can/will pick it up.