Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:36:20 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: James Raynard <fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Master site question Message-ID: <199711081836.UAA24395@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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James Raynard wrote: > 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. Bummer. > 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. security/fwtk has the same problem. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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