From owner-freebsd-www Thu Mar 13 13:39:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A9937B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCA843FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7B866D6A for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:39:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54091E23; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:39:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:39:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: [merv@spidernet.com.cy: Re: ports availability] Message-ID: <20030313213928.GC92052@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It looks like there are still some references to the ports collection on the ftp site (which is no longer there). These should be changed to point to cvsweb like the rest of the links. Can someone take care of this? Kris ----- Forwarded message from merv ----- X-Original-To: kkenn@localhost Delivered-To: kkenn@localhost.obsecurity.org X-Originating-IP: [128.125.38.123] Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:50:08 +0200 From: merv Subject: Re: ports availability In-reply-to: <20030312230946.GA88191@rot13.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Reply-To: merv@spidernet.com.cy X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Priority: normal X-Bogosity: No, tests=3Dbogofilter, spamicity=3D0.304840, version=3D0.10.3.1 Thanks for your quick reply: >Can you be more explicit about what page has the problem? The ports >tree is not kept on the ftp site in expanded form any longer, but the >website was supposedly fixed to not look there. an example of where the download link fails is here,=20 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=3Dcvs&stype=3Dall. the ISOs I burned, though with complete ports packages, does no not have a= copy of the=20 "cvsup without GUI" for some reason. I am building a firewall/ipfilter on = a machine with very=20 limited disk space (<1GB) and hence, though I require the cvsup port, i hav= e to use to non- GUI version. The link above is the result of a search for "cvsup" on the "= Ported applications"=20 section of the FreeBSD website. This is an example of the page with the dowload link that fails for tripwire http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=3Dtripwire&stype=3Dall It appears that the download link, in both cases, attempts to redirect me h= ere, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/net/cvsup-without= -gui (cvsup) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/security/tripwire= (tripwire) >The usual way is to cvsup the ports collection or use the portcheckout >port. You can also use cvsweb to download port directories. I am unable to cvsup in the usual manner since the disks I installed the po= rts from for FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE do not have the cvsup-without-gui port and I have no= t the space=20 to load the gui version. Hence I do not currently have cvsup functionality= on that machine at all. Thanks again. --=20 Merv Hammer ----- End forwarded message ----- --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+cPqQWry0BWjoQKURAmAYAKDOj5n0Q42XcTFo/0r/kbQFD031/QCgjS62 bkZif/FvvfcNLbhyQpL+8WA= =RQv6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message