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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 09:56:37 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org>
To:        "Eric M Logan" <ericmlogan@mediaone.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: about gftp...
Message-ID:  <105301c0df2d$02eb20a0$0300a8c0@oracle>
References:  <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net> <103d01c0df2b$756fc1a0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B046309.CD9C4CBD@mediaone.net>

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> Yeah, unfortunately this seems to be the only route available.
Thanks to
> those who responded, it's off to the source code for me.

I've never used gftp .... I've tended to use nftp because its trivial
to compile,
always works properly, & a binary is available for W2K

>
> Doug Young wrote:
>
> > > since updating to 4.3 I've noticed that a lot of ports have been
> > marked
> > > broken.  For instance, reportmagic, netscape*, and GFTP.
Especially
> > in
> > > regards to Gftp, if a port is marked broken is that it?  No more
app
> > and
> > > deal with it?  It's been suggested that the Makefile in the
ports
> > dir
> > > could be modified so that the app can be installed anyway but
what's
> > the
> > > proper thing to do as I don't want to install a port that has
been
> > > marked broken?  Thanks.
> > >
> > I've been experiencing similar problems since I started using
CVSUP in
> > 4.2 &
> > even after installing 4.3 RELEASE the problems continue. In most
cases
> > it
> > appears to related to missing libraries or incompatible
dependency.
> > (eg I think
> > its Webmin that insists on SSLeay but even though that was
supposed to
> > have
> > been replaced by the OpenSSH thats included in default 4.3, the
Webmin
> > port
> > isn't smart enough to know that. One of the experts told me about
a
> > workaround
> > that seems to work, but I dunno that "workarounds" should be
regarded
> > as best
> > practice.
> >
> > Now when I find something I  want is broken / verboten / whatever
I've
> > been going
> > to the homepage for the particular application, grabbing the
source &
> > compiling that.
> > I suspect that may not be 100% kosher, but so far every one I've
done
> > that way
> > has worked properly  (fingers crossed) :)
> >
> > >
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