From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Nov 21 18:50:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06558 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:50:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA06550 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:50:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id SAA28026; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:49:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA00947; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:31:06 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199711220231.SAA00947@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Sorry for some bogus email In-Reply-To: <97Nov21.171203pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 21, 97 05:11:56 pm" To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:31:06 -0800 (PST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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