Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 23:53:14 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: file://localhost/usr/ports/misc/mmv/README.html Message-ID: <20050522035314.GA42806@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20050522030853.GA60445@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200505180256.j4I2uuR1007388@bilver.wjv.com> <20050518051153.GA92754@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050522014713.GA41935@wjv.com> <20050522030853.GA60445@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Ashes to ashes, and DOS to DOS Kris Kennaway was heard to say on or about Sat, May 21, 2005 at 20:08 : > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:47:13PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > Throwing caution to the wind and speaking without thinking about > > what was being said on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 22:11 , > > Kris Kennaway blurted this: > > > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:56:56PM -0400, bv@wjv.com wrote: > > > > I can't find 'mmv' on the FreeBSD.org site, or the wustl site. Has it > > > > been removed? > > > No, it's still in the same place. > > I just went and looked again, and I'm damned if I can find it. > > The master side at wuarchive.wustl.edu has undergone drastic > > changes. I've perused the ports and under misc I do not find > > anything with mmv. An ls of mm* doesn't show it. > Oh, you are talking about the distfile...I thought you were talking > about the package. 5 seconds on google found a copy, and I replaced > the master site with a working one. It would be helpful if you could > do a more thorough job and submit a PR patching the port to use > several. I could fine neither. My first reply was just out of the README.html in the ports tree. I'm not familiar with submitting a PR so I guess I need to study up on that. Sorry. > P.S. The reason this distfile is not available on ftp.freebsd.org is > because the port is marked NO_PACKAGE. In that case why does the 'make' in /usr/ports/misc/mmv try to find one when it can't get the one from wustl.edu? Thanks for fixing the Makefile to point to a good archive. I see it alread when I cvsup'ed the ports tree again. I'm sure others will appreciate that. I'll try to do better in describing problems. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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