From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 8 10:34:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA17511 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17497 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (poOpxsl9m7Qsqb+jidfShTcYQYTXeaLN@greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA16181; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:34:05 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (Zfss6WyUa/vJgF6AClUJ62mywW+vNRMy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA24395; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:36:20 +0200 (SAST) Message-Id: <199711081836.UAA24395@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: James Raynard cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Master site question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:36:20 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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