Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 14:52:06 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Master site question Message-ID: <199711092252.OAA08353@bubble.didi.com> In-Reply-To: <19971108164251.04348@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:42:51 %2B0000)
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* Greetings. I've almost completed a port of SFIO (an improved stdio), * but have come across a problem with MASTER_SITE. The tarball is * available from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/, but cannot * be fetched automatically, as the user is required to give their name * and email address before they can download it. * * Are there any other ports in a similar situation? The "obvious" * solution is to override do-fetch and print out a message asking the * user to fetch the source by hand, but I just wondered if there was * a better solution. Depends on why they are doing that. If they want to keep track of exactly who has the source, I guess you need the user to fetch it manually. If the source is redistributable, I can put it up on wcarchive's LOCAL_PORTS. Satoshi
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