Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:03 -0400 From: jre <jre@girlcat.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: broken port! Message-ID: <46098CDB.5080502@girlcat.org>
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Hello, The last two releases of FreeBSD include this port, and, once built, constantly complains about no working P: lines, despite valid configuration files from previous (and current) versions which *do* work on other operating systems (OpenBSD) and older FreeBSD distributions. When inquiries were made to the various support irc networks and freebsd channels, the generic response was "use something more maintained like ratbox or bahamut." While this ended up being our solution, it probably doesn't look to cool to have broken ports in the default FreeBSD tree, so I decided to send this message to the port maintainer. *irc-2.11.1.1 <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/irc/irc>* The "Internet Relay Chat" Server Long description <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/irc/irc/pkg-descr>; | Package <ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/irc-2.11.1.1.tbz>; | Sources <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/irc/irc>; /Maintained by:/ ports@FreeBSD.org <mailto:ports@FreeBSD.org> /Also listed in:/ Ipv6 <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ipv6.html#irc-2.11.1.1>; Port description for irc/irc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Irc is a functional replacement for and improvement to talk(1). Talk is an old, primitive, atrocious, minimalist sort of keyboard/screen conversation tool, using a grotesque, machine-dependent protocol. Irc does everything talk does, but with a better protocol, allowing more than 2 users to talk at once, with access across the aggregate Internet, and providing a whole raft of other useful features. Thank you much, -jre
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