Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:28:58 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Broken ports Message-ID: <19990705102858.A60168@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199907051726.KAA05485@phobos.caltech.edu>; from Stan Brown on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:26:31PM -0400 References: <19990705100102.A57270@wopr.caltech.edu> <199907051726.KAA05485@phobos.caltech.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:26:31PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Now a folowup question. Why not just point the xscrabble file retrival > at FreeBSD, where a copy that works is? Rather than declaring it > broken, that is. My best guess is that marking it BROKEN serves as an encouragement for the maintainer to Do Something About It. In this case, though, the port doesn't have a maintainer. I'm going to put a copy of the working distfile on my website and point the Makefile there. Thanks for pointing this out. Matt -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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