Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:00:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: shells/ksh93 Message-ID: <20051010060041.GA31612@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200510092317.j99NHqL9007329@bright.research.att.com> References: <200510071001.j97A1c23029414@freefall.freebsd.org> <1128726978.3009.63.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200510072327.j97NR4BN032652@bright.research.att.com> <200510091424.52316.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200510092317.j99NHqL9007329@bright.research.att.com>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:17:52PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: >=20 > >While you are looking at this issue -- is there any way a request to the > >port=20 > >maintainer could be initiated, asking the maintainer to regularly check = the=20 > >status of the port when the port is broken (file cannot be fetched) to b= ring > >the port up todate? >=20 > Normally, the distfile survey would send a periodic email to > maintainers of ports that are unfetchable; however, it doesn't > send email about ports that are marked "BROKEN". This has an > unfortunate interaction with ports that are marked BROKEN because > they're unfetchable. However, the maintainer will have received and ignored at least one, and possibly several emails about the broken status of their port before it ever gets to the stage of being marked BROKEN. Kris --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDSgOJWry0BWjoQKURAt2wAKDfjzu1pHRBFjuhik5HJ6UO1AVZ8QCffjW4 dIb3sfsSWiVHe4hQi/FxJgM= =dP5X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--
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