From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 14:58:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15CD16A402; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:58:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4B043D46; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:58:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D601765B; Mon, 8 May 2006 17:58:35 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:58:34 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu To: Paul Schmehl Message-ID: <20060508175834.29059fc9@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <445F554B.5030708@utdallas.edu> References: <200605071004.k47A4upP048167@freefall.freebsd.org> <445F554B.5030708@utdallas.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_eUdMS50Kp2T_MOC4=qhAQ_X"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Bill Fenner Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder 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: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:58:39 -0000 --Sig_eUdMS50Kp2T_MOC4=qhAQ_X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 08 May 2006 09:27:23 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote: > Bill Fenner wrote: > > Dear porters, > >=20 > > This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of > > unfetchable distfiles at http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ . > > In particular, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with distfile > > problems, which currently has 203 bad ports, is > >=20 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html > >=20 > Rather than a list of ports with unfectchable distfiles and no=20 > maintainer, this appears to be a list of every port. >=20 > Is the link incorrect? Or am I doing something wrong? All ports are there with the status for all MASTER_SITES (plus WWW). The bad ones are in red. > > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get > > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative. > >=20 > > In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is > >=20 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html > >=20 > I tackled a few of these yesterday, but all of them had maintainers. (I= =20 > did seven, but one turned out to have already been done.) Some of them=20 > were pretty simple. Some I declined to do because they required=20 > extensive patching. Are maintainers notified when their ports don't work? Yes :) How fast they react is an other matter :-/ > I'd rather tackle ones without a maintainer, if I can get a valid list.=20 /me (and jmelo) are your biggest fans for this kind of PRs, please CC one of us on your PRs. > If the port doesn't have a maintainer and the software is no longer=20 > available (I used both Google and searching around at the master site to= =20 > try and locate where the software had moved to), what should we do?=20 > Mark the port as DEPRECATED and let the committers decide on an=20 > EXPIRATION DATE? I'd say mark it DEPRECIATED if we have all DISTFILES on our ftp, if not BROKEN. You can suggest an EXPIRATION DATE yourself. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #125: we just switched to Sprint --Sig_eUdMS50Kp2T_MOC4=qhAQ_X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEX1yaBX6fi0k6KXsRAkOYAJ4pSyuhP3NFClT7nJQH9xVsmF6cOwCgn5Bp VKUVsg/XIg1xUbjN3Rd4mhc= =RP1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_eUdMS50Kp2T_MOC4=qhAQ_X--