From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 12:22:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFFF16A41F; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tdb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from carrick.bishnet.net (carrick.bishnet.net [84.234.16.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4160143D69; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tdb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from myrtle.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.3.176]) by carrick.bishnet.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EjyJg-0005fs-UR; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:22:36 +0000 From: Tim Bishop To: Beecher Rintoul In-Reply-To: <200512070255.18576.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <200512071002.jB7A2bxF064641@freefall.freebsd.org> <200512070255.18576.akbeech@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yNsAH1AwM2VQZf4lrHQh" Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:22:24 +0000 Message-Id: <1133958144.663.44.camel@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Bishnet-MailScanner-Information: Contact postmaster@bishnet.net X-Bishnet-MailScanner-VirusCheck: Found to be clean X-Bishnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-4.111, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.29, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Bishnet-MailScanner-From: tdb@freebsd.org Cc: Bill Fenner , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:22:45 -0000 --=-yNsAH1AwM2VQZf4lrHQh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 02:55 -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:02 am, Bill Fenner wrote: > > Dear porters, > > > > This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of > > unfetchable distfiles at http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ = . > > In particular, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with distfile > > problems, which currently has 234 bad ports, is > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html > > > > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get > > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative. > > > > In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html > > > > if you don't mind coordinating your fixes with the port MAINTAINER. > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > > Bill "distfiles" Fenner >=20 > I would be willing to help out, but I've never submitted anything to be=20 > committed. In what form do you want the files (a diff)? Secondly who do I= =20 > send them to. Since a lot of ports are orphaned do I just post it to the=20 > list? I'm not a programmer but I would like to learn portbuilding and I=20 > figure this is a good place to start. A diff sent using send-pr is the best and probably easiest way. You may want to look at devel/porttools - it'll generate and send diffs for you. Tim. --=-yNsAH1AwM2VQZf4lrHQh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (SunOS) iD8DBQBDltP/fc7WWVrn2YQRAvc8AJ9d/g3oZwl422l6+eRTQzDVqIlPSgCZAZTb SQUOOH+H3/CRk5NbWuKm/0A= =R6TW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yNsAH1AwM2VQZf4lrHQh--