From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 03:14:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22757106564A; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847A08FC0C; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so1969299wib.13 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:14:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1LP2PS5uXWp3Zhr57Bsh2wh9melomkXz6c0hL9zm2PY=; b=h29601fgi/I0qOhG7pCh3syAl3bEaWNF5isW8Sqe9f1a3RleKdEEfHY/FnO5aufRmx ekULTEiUcYvajX8coxxUUGeIVTC2/EeA4uf5VCQwOhdzHqlyCYGzWCxud9rKpSkJhyk8 VUKaGooUvSN5gnmQEr4o9qNmseWVCd2ESY7trNZxsVn9nduexAPMZb6M26JUzACnoQkR van7/dnzf8bHXMP1D1bfTeZI2CXpczl7t9FXOZ9NjHzlRmaZLXKXUoNmXse5ppRoweIA m+HskW+pdKiRNb2r/5H/LCsMOL5ue5/K5hiuoYQtikyow14Vi3BhA60eZV0WUeXk+ILi frBw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.98.201 with SMTP id ek9mr17305946wib.7.1339384440382; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.102.4 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:14:00 -0400 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: scheidell@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port unmaintained since 2005? drop it? misc/gpt* X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:14:02 -0000 > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:31 AM, wrote: > > Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > >> Two unmaintained ports, nothing depends on them, and upstream has > >> not updated source since 2004, ftp server unresponsive. > >> > >> > >> (gpt32: misc/gpt also unmaintained since 2005. > >> > >> > >> ftp server mentioned doesn't respond (ftp.freebsd.org has distfile), > >> upstream unmaintained since 2004, and upstream points to a different > >> distfile (with different checksum and same version number), mentions > >> an alpha version 4.0. > > > > These are originally from NCSA, but the website mentioned in > > the pkg-descr (http://www.gridpackagingtools.org/) now seems to > > be promoting some kind of diet/nutritional approach. =C2=A0The only > > connection to "middleware" that immediately comes to mind is that > > such sites tend to be frequented by those concerned about excessive > > weight around their middle :) > > > > Dunno what (if anything) they are currently good for, but it seems > > that, at a minimum, the PORTVERSION and/or MASTER_SITES -- and the > > pkg-descr -- need to be updated. > > I would have to think that that is a remnant of a project that is no > longer running. The current owners of that domain are squatters: The distribution files are at: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/aces/gpt/releases and the homepage is: http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/gpt/ (And Globus is at: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/ ) Time to determine this: < 1 min. b.