Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 03:48:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving UUCP to ports Message-ID: <3BA8780D.F1A3A51E@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20010918154737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3BA6EB64.A4F9720C@mindspring.com> <20010917235356.A41864@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA7A37E.93DA21B8@mindspring.com> <20010918204211.A54489@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
[ ... "but if someone suddenly wanted to they can maintain the port
just as easily" ... ]
> > Except that most of the people in the world don't have an FTP
> > server, and the ISP links that they do have prevent them from
> > running a server at all --
>
> What does the ability to run an FTP server have to do with anything?
> Are you somehow confused and think that maintaing a port (which surely
> would only be one person, not every UUCP user in the world) requires
> self-hosting of the distfile?
No, it requires hosting of the project which is to take over
the maintenance of UUCP, after FreeBSD throws it out into the
cold like the Red Headed Step Child, for having a minor and
easily fixed security flaw.
> > and it is *precisely* these people who need UUCP.
>
> How do these people get their copy of the new version of FreeBSD? Any
> way I can think of allows the possibility of also obtaining a copy of
> the UUCP package.
CDROM from the maintainer.
Oh yeah... with FreeBSD no longer the maintainer of its own
UUCP, it would be obtained from... um... er... the noplace?
> > Can we move on to talking about making sendmail and perl into
> > ports instead?
>
> One thing at a time.
Good... after all FreeBSD isn't a system, it's a kernel, right?
-- Terry
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