Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:58:34 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder 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>
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--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 <pauls@utdallas.edu> 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--
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