From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 8 10:06:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA16157 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA16151 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id ab1024247; 8 Nov 97 18:01 GMT Received: (from fports@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA05540; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:42:54 GMT (envelope-from fports) Message-ID: <19971108164251.04348@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:42:51 +0000 From: James Raynard To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Master site question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings. I've almost completed a port of SFIO (an improved stdio), but have come across a problem with MASTER_SITE. The tarball is available from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/, but cannot be fetched automatically, as the user is required to give their name and email address before they can download it. Are there any other ports in a similar situation? The "obvious" solution is to override do-fetch and print out a message asking the user to fetch the source by hand, but I just wondered if there was a better solution. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/