From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 6 19:10:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25436 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-43.fwi.com [209.84.172.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25322 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27350; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:08:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.2/8.9.2) id WAA91709; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:10:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: "Michael A. Olson" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley DB port to FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 06 Feb 1999 22:10:01 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: "Michael A. Olson"'s message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:58:44 -0800" Message-ID: <86pv7moqnq.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Michael A. Olson" writes: > We're currently at release 2.7; the 2.3 code is more than a year > old, and we're no longer supporting it. I've pinged Josh on this, > but he's apparently pretty busy, as I haven't heard back. > > Can you pull the ref to the older code from the ports page? Our > stuff, as downloaded from www.sleepycat.com, builds and runs > correctly on FreeBSD, so people can feel free simply to grab the > newest release and build it. The released code includes a full > automated test suite. I took a look at your web site with a view towards updating the port, and it appears that the only way to download the current distfile is via a cgi-bin script there. One of the great beauties of the FreeBSD ports system is the way it automates the download, building and installation process. Speaking solely for myself, I think we're better off with a slightly dated distfile that's cached on FreeBSD mirrors worldwide that attempting to track something that has to be manually downloaded every time. If you would be willing to provide a fixed URL from which the new releases can be fetched, I think that we would be much more likely to keep the port up to date. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message