Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:58:42 -0500 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: net/liveMedia live.2004.11.11.tar.gz not fetchable agian Message-ID: <41965962.4030700@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <0D304EC9-35A5-11D9-BC75-000A958C81C6@ahze.net> References: <200411120827.08186.ringworm@inbox.lv> <4194EE80.4090208@vonostingroup.com> <200411120923.39199.ringworm@inbox.lv> <4194FC8B.9030402@vonostingroup.com> <200411122011.iACKBRAP011371@sakura.ninth-nine.com> <41952224.7040302@vonostingroup.com> <200411122358.iACNwIrL017032@sakura.ninth-nine.com> <41965720.8000306@vonostingroup.com> <0D304EC9-35A5-11D9-BC75-000A958C81C6@ahze.net>
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Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> On Nov 13, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Frank J. Laszlo wrote:
>
>> Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
>>
>>> I might well be able to do somthing you said, but I don't
>>> like it:-). On the other hand, I'll automatically commit
>>> liveMedia. The first, I'm watching liveMedia site by cron,
>>> and if it is updated, my program will report to my cell-phone
>>> (with an e-mail function).
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like a lot of work to me. The ports dont really have a way to
>> address snapshots very well. of course the pkg-plist would be one
>> issue to combat, Too bad there isnt a way for the ports to
>> auto-generate the pkg-plist. Good luck you you :)
>
>
> I can tell you a good reason not to do this, say someone hacked
> live.com and changed some code around and made a new release with bad
> code.
> This has happened before, look at bitchx.org. You're more incline to
> catch it if you manually upgrade the program.
>
> Michael
Good point. I totally agree with that.
Regards,
Frank Laszlo
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