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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:23:09 -0700
From:      "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@Lamb.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gripes
Message-ID:  <960704142309.ZM17625@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net>
In-Reply-To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> "gripes" (Jul  4, 12:14pm)
References:  <199607041914.MAA01959@tao.thought.org>

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On Jul 4, 12:14pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> Subject: gripes
>
> This morning I failed when trying to fetch jpeg-6 using the latest
> ``-current'' ports makefiles.
>
> The script is looking to ftp back jpeg-6 when it _should_ be looking
> for jpeg-6a.  ---Some weeks ago I retrieved the latest jpeg and thus
> knew the correct filename.
>
> This snippet is from my FreeBSD-current/ports/graphics/jpeg/Makefile::
>
> #
> # $Id: Makefile,v 1.10 1995/10/11 08:21:33 asami Exp $
> #
>
> ###DISTNAME=       jpegsrc.v6
> DISTNAME=       jpegsrc.v6a
>
>
> Please, people!  A few minutes of real-world testing would save
> man-centuries of users trying to figure out what the blazes went
> wrong....

Nah, not man-centuries. Current is not supposed to be run by so many people ;-)

>
> gary
>-- End of excerpt from Gary Kline



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