From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 8 2:28: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 02:28:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B2237B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA38053; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:28:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: What to do with inn-stable? From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Dec 2000 11:28:04 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently took over maintenance of news/inn-stable from Andreas. I haven't had time to do anything with it yet, and now it won't build because the distfile isn't around any more. I can of course update the port to the latest -STABLE snapshot of INN (I already have patches for that), but unless I make a local copy of the distfile, it'll fail again in a week, because the ISC only keeps one week's worth of snapshots on their FTP site. And there's not much point in an out-of-date snapshot anyway (currently news/inn-stable gives you an older version of INN than news/inn!), so I'd have to update the port regularly, say once a week, or write the port such that it will try to fetch and build the latest snapshot. Or I could simply retire news/inn-stable. What do the ports gurus think? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message