Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:03:25 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: [kris@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: ports/lang/nawk Makefile] Message-ID: <20040225020325.GA60758@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040224.235412.e05ccefc82735f8f.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net> 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>
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--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--
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