Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:54:09 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/driconf Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <BANLkTi=z8miBwrxn4Qu=yg4%2BKnAyAmhRVg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DB9BD1B.8080400@FreeBSD.org> References: <201104280857.p3S8vjhp021238@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DB9BD1B.8080400@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Generally maintainership in a situation like this implies stepping forward
> to provide hosting for the distfiles. I understand that there are other
> ports that are referring to debian repos for non-linux things, and I've
> asked portmgr to look into this practice. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure that
> this example is not a good idea. It's fairly rude to utilize the resources
> of another project without permission.
>
1. I think the existence of ${MASTER_SITE_DEBIAN} is intended to allow this.
2. Arbitrarily remove a port like driconf is also rude. driconf is
almost the only GUI DRI configuration tool, and I just want to save
it.
3. Anyway, since debian forked a kFreeBSD, I think we have the
position to get the "permission".
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 04/28/2011 01:57, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>> bapt 2011-04-28 08:57:45 UTC
>>
>> FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>> Modified files:
>> graphics/driconf Makefile distinfo
>> Log:
>> New volunteer to maintain
>> Use distfile hosted at debian (this is cheating :))
>> undeprecate
>>
>> PR: ports/156688
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156688
>> Submitted by: Zhihao Yuan<lichray _at_ gmail.com>
>>
>> Revision Changes Path
>> 1.17 +5 -6 ports/graphics/driconf/Makefile
>> 1.5 +2 -3 ports/graphics/driconf/distinfo
>>
>>
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/graphics/driconf/Makefile.diff?&r1=1.16&r2=1.17&f=h
>>
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/graphics/driconf/distinfo.diff?&r1=1.4&r2=1.5&f=h
>>
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