From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 28 16:05:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B62E9F70; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:05:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from land.berklix.org (land.berklix.org [144.76.10.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 283D81B06; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5DCBCD50.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.203.205.80]) (authenticated bits=128) by land.berklix.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0SG4pNP043847; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:04:53 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s0SG0xeU022675; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:01:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0SG0kBx034099; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:00:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Message-Id: <201401281600.s0SG0kBx034099@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Dimitry Andric Subject: Re: How to find removed ports in general & math/hexcalc in particular. From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultants, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:41:36 +0100." <57C5BBE0-9A26-47E9-A0D6-A138474A41D3@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:00:46 +0100 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:05:19 -0000 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 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.