Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 19:54:06 +0100 From: Shaun Amott <shaun@inerd.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder Message-ID: <20060508185405.GA767@picobyte.net> In-Reply-To: <445F554B.5030708@utdallas.edu> References: <200605071004.k47A4upP048167@freefall.freebsd.org> <445F554B.5030708@utdallas.edu>
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:27:23AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Bill Fenner wrote: > >Dear porters, > > > > 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 > > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html > > > Rather than a list of ports with unfectchable distfiles and no > maintainer, this appears to be a list of every port. > > Is the link incorrect? Or am I doing something wrong? > The ports@freebsd.org.html page is unmaintained ports only. However, all the links point to category pages, which contain all ports, maintained or not. The category pages are quite long, so it can take a while for your browser to scroll down to the port in question. > Mark the port as DEPRECATED and let the committers decide on an > EXPIRATION DATE? > Only on files with a last OK date of <a long time ago>, IMO. -- Shaun Amott [ PGP: 0x6B387A9A ] Scientia Est Potentia.
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