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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:48:00 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, wosch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: when are the ports pages on the web updated?
Message-ID:  <20020419134800.C56015@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020418204618.A59516@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@freebsd.org on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:46:18PM %2B0300
References:  <20020418164714.I56757@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020418204618.A59516@ark.cris.net>

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:46:18PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:47:14PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > I was just notified of a strange 'problem' with the ports webpages
> > by someone who was searching for the blackbox maintainer. To witness,
> > do this:
> > 
> > - Go to:
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=blackbox&stype=all
> >   and check that the maintainer appears to be 'patseal@hyperhost.net'
> >   This is strange, because the port has listed me (stijn@win.tue.nl) as a
> >   maintainer since at least 20 feb. 2002.
> >   Also note that this port appears to be at version 0.61.1.
> 
> ports.cgi is operates on some snapshot of ports/INDEX file. By
> default now using 4.5-RELEASE's INDEX. To get more recent
> information on ports you need to choose -STABLE's INDEX at least.
> 
> Actually I think it's not correct and will change default search
> criteria to -STABLE's one.

Thanks! I think it makes a lot more sense if the sources you download match
the port version :)

--Stijn

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