Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:00:46 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to find removed ports in general & math/hexcalc in particular. Message-ID: <201401281600.s0SG0kBx034099@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:41:36 %2B0100." <57C5BBE0-9A26-47E9-A0D6-A138474A41D3@FreeBSD.org>
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Dimitry Andric wrote: > > --Apple-Mail=_442D467F-1929-40CE-90B7-0CAD6B1BC540 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii > > On 28 Jan 2014, at 16:28, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > > Hi ports@freebsd.org > > I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc or replacement it dissapeared after > > 8.2-RELEASE, it's not in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/math.html > > > > How should one find: > > Why it dissapeared ? > > (eg maybe it just lacked a maintainer & I have to re-port it? Or ... ? > > What to replace it with ? > > > > A few days ago I tried tracing another port > > (demime) & ploughed through loads of svnweb pages, dividing by 2 > > until I found exactly the revision when demime had been removed, > > but even there no hint why removed or what to use instead. > > ( Eventually I used emil instead of demime. ) > > > > After upgrade, recovering abandoned ports is a chore, > > What - if any - generalised pointer mechanism, does FreeBSD have > > for providing a hint of Why a port was deleted, & what to use instead. > > Try: > > grep demime /usr/ports/MOVED > > which will give: > > mail/demime||2011-12-28|Has expired: No upstream development since 2007 > > -Dimitry Thanks Dimitry :-) grep hexcalc /usr/ports/MOVED math/hexcalc||2011-08-01|Has expired: Looks like abandonware, no more public distfiles I have a local: 25129 Dec 20 1995 hexcalc..tar.Z (no idea why 2 dots), anyway its a valid tar. I have put it up here http://berklix.com/~jhs/ftp/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/hexcalc..tar.Z I'll look at creating a port. (unless people know of a newer nice hexcalc ? but this one was always OK for me) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.
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