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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:31:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sorry for some bogus email
Message-ID:  <199711220231.SAA00947@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <97Nov21.171203pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 21, 97 05:11:56 pm"

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According to Bill Fenner:
> The distfile checker was fooled by the combination of prep.ai.mit.edu
> being down last night and the change of the default MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR.
> Normally, if a site is down and last time the file was checked it was
> OK, the distfile checker just ignores the fact that the site is down.
> Unfortunately, the change to MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=.  means that it was
> unable to find the last time a file was checked -- it had never seen
> foo/bar/baz/./file.tar.gz, only foo/bar/baz//file.tar.gz .  I edited
> the history file and added the /./'s and re-ran the web page
> generator.  Sorry that I didn't notice this until after the automatic
> email went out.
> 

	Thanks for this, Bill.  I was ready to check prep and
	find that ennscript had been up-rev'd to v1.5.1.  It's
	due out soon in any case.  So I'll still check...

	gary


> 


-- 
  Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix




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