Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:14:24 GMT From: Edmondas Girkantas <eg@fbsd.lt> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/136100: change FreeBSD Ports distfiles survey's url to portscout.org Message-ID: <200906272214.n5RMEOUp091699@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200906272220.n5RMK1dN091910@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 136100 >Category: docs >Synopsis: change FreeBSD Ports distfiles survey's url to portscout.org >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 27 22:20:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Edmondas Girkantas >Release: 7.2-RELEASE-p1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD big.bug.lt 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue Jun 9 21:30:43 UTC 2009 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: FreeBSD Porter's Handbook and Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection article have links to Fenner's distfiles survey page (http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/), which is out of date. I propose to change the links to Miwi's FreeBSD Ports distfile scanner (http://www.portscout.org/), which is active and shows the current situation. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: apply given patch Patch attached with submission follows: ? doc.diff.txt Index: articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 article.sgml --- articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml 28 Jun 2007 21:46:21 -0000 1.4 +++ articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml 27 Jun 2009 22:06:40 -0000 @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ <para>Regularly check the automated ports building cluster, <ulink url="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org">pointyhat</ulink>, and the - <ulink url="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">distfiles survey</ulink> + <ulink url="http://www.portscout.org">distfiles scanner</ulink> to see if any of the ports you maintain are failing to build or fetch (see <link linkend="resources">resources</link> for more information about these systems). Reports of @@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ contributor you can use it to find broken and unmaintained ports that need to be fixed.</para> - <para>Bill Fenner's - <ulink url="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">distfile survey</ulink> + <para>The + <ulink url="http://www.portscout.org">FreeBSD Ports distfile scanner</ulink> can show you ports for which the distfiles are not fetchable. You can check on your own ports or use it to find ports that need their <makevar>MASTER_SITES</makevar> updated. Index: books/porters-handbook/book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.1019 diff -u -r1.1019 book.sgml --- books/porters-handbook/book.sgml 26 Jun 2009 21:14:18 -0000 1.1019 +++ books/porters-handbook/book.sgml 27 Jun 2009 22:06:46 -0000 @@ -14057,14 +14057,14 @@ </sect1> <sect1 id="distfile-survey"> - <title>The &os; Port Distfile Survey</title> + <title>The &os; Ports Distfile Scanner</title> <para>The build cluster is dedicated to building the latest release of each port with distfiles that have already been fetched. However, as the Internet continually changes, distfiles can quickly go missing. The <ulink - url="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">FreeBSD - Ports distfiles survey</ulink> attempts to query every + url="http://www.portscout.org">FreeBSD + Ports distfile scanner</ulink> attempts to query every download site for every port to find out if each distfile is still currently available. Maintainers are asked to check this report periodically, not only to speed up the >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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