From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 18:03:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 78F6B16A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD3643D2F for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (587579598147e188c5d7663557599d63@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i1P23QQ0015598; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C07966D54; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:25 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: horio shoichi Message-ID: <20040225020325.GA60758@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040221200856.GE51561@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040224.042616.c2b63568694ba1a5.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net> <20040224061140.GA40247@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040224.235412.e05ccefc82735f8f.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040224.235412.e05ccefc82735f8f.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: [kris@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: ports/lang/nawk Makefile] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 02:03:27 -0000 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:54:11AM +0900, horio shoichi wrote: > > citusc17# ls -l /usr/ports/distfiles/awk.tar.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 85779 Feb 7 13:50 /usr/ports/distfiles/awk.= tar.gz > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > I meant just that. >=20 > In all ports, porters delay porting the newest one for some time. > That's acceptable, in many cases necessary, I think. >=20 > Unfortunately, ports without version numbers like this make keeping > the "correct" sources a little harder, though. >=20 >=20 > Marking BROKEN against this sort of trouble makes the retrieval > of the newer ones difficult. Better turn it off ? No, the port is broken for anyone who fetches a fresh copy of it. The BROKEN tag merely documents this: the port must either be fixed to use the new distfile or changed to fetch an old version of it. That's the way we do things around here :) Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAPAJtWry0BWjoQKURAlLMAKD9uPw7EEOisfzOtQYQxRWoLrER5gCfQTh1 yzMxaCSb9hXnRMohqk5/QTY= =uDXY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--