From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 15 21:11:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71AF37B412; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dwcjr (unknown [66.64.12.254]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD3010F45B; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:11:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <025201c155f8$98314260$fe0c4042@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: , , "Maxim Sobolev" Cc: , References: <200110160349.GAA35734@ipcard.iptcom.net> Subject: Re: ports/30497: ftp.freesoftware.com no longer exists Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:11:13 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maxim Sobolev" To: ; Cc: ; Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:49 PM Subject: Re: ports/30497: ftp.freesoftware.com no longer exists > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:35:59 +0200 (CEST), Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just seen that PR #30497 was closed on Sep 23 2001. > > as a contributor, I didn't receive any email about this! > > > > unfortunately, I'm surprise that a 3+ days goes to the trash! > > > > yes, the fix you apply was just to remove any occurences of > > freesoftware.com while the one I supply fix number of ports > > in one way or another. One reason yours was most likely not committed, is because its not simply a site change, its updating ports which requires maintainer approval. You also added id tags to pkg-plist files which I believe portmgr@ has not thought highly of so far. I understand your frustration, but the minimum is the easiest to do when you are overworked and volunteer. Wouldn't you rather the minimum than nothing at all? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message