From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 14:52:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C703C106566C for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:52:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827288FC14 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p57B3A1DC.dip.t-dialin.net [87.179.161.220]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A29884403D; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:36:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.2.110]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3562615C0; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:36:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:36:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Tony Sim Message-ID: <20101205153600.00005b7e@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 3A29884403D.A7D9E X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1292164570.67651@3vUvLoNHTM6bHHk8clmitg X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about updates to linux-f10-pango X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:52:11 -0000 On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:10:54 +0900 Tony Sim wrote: > It seems that in September, somebody had taken the initiative to > build an rpm of pango based on fedora 10. > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17745 > > I was wondering why the port has not been updated with the new rpm. > Is the package considered unusable or otherwise invalid? Probably nobody took the time to have a look if this rpm can be trusted. This is nothing against the person who did the rpm, it is just that with the official fedora-rpms, there is someone "official" behind who has some reputation, whereas Peter Littmann who generated the rpm is at least unknown to me and as such has an unknown reputation. Bye, Alexander.