From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 20 9:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA33737B400 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g2KHe2v63115; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:40:02 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Annelise Anderson Cc: "Michael W.Holdeman" , "FreeBSD Questions " Subject: Re: bidwatcher Message-ID: <20020320094002.A62714@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <0203192159270B.03141@fcoffice.ptfd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:23:14PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:23:14PM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > However bidwatcher has a problem with some auctions (not being able > to get the data for them) that is being worked on, and if you want > the very latest, you have to get the sources by CVS from sourceforge.net > and build it yourself. (Keeping up with changes outside of releases > is not the porter's responsiblity.) While there have been ports that track CVS repositories outside the project (OpenSSH comes to mind), it is quite labor-intensive and usually reserved for things more important than bidwatcher. :-) I just wanted to say that if you do decide to use the sources from CVS instead of the port, it should be quite straightforward. I think you can probably just "./configure", "gmake", and "gmake install" as is common with most software these days, and it will probably work just fine. -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message