From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 30 23:26:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38ED237B4CF; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA84391; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39FE741E.4BB5C861@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:26:22 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-102 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Peter Pentchev , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fetch -b and -t flags References: <20001030164342.A349@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <39FD9EB2.C8809161@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maxim Sobolev wrote: > The main reason that those flags are still here is that we are still supposed to > support 3-* releases, in which fetch(1) still need these flags. If that's the case, can't they be wrapped in appropriate incarnations of OSVERSION? IMO, anything that generates errors that the users can see is bad, especially when easily avoidable. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message