From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 21:06:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD74D106566C; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@FreeBSD.org) Received: from bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com [204.109.60.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6EC8FC12; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.17] (241-9-178-69.static.gci.net [69.178.9.241]) by bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 10DC2170BC; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FDA523A.9030801@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:06:02 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James Wade (Phurix)" References: <201206141830.q5EIUANs057392@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201206141830.q5EIUANs057392@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Beech Rintoul Subject: Re: ports/169054: Can't install irc/eggdrop X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:06:09 -0000 On 6/14/2012 10:30 AM, James Wade (Phurix) wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/169054; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "James Wade (Phurix)" > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: ports/169054: Can't install irc/eggdrop > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:05:34 +0100 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------070204040909070603050005 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial. > > The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad idea. > > http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39 > > Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot (development but, > supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest but, no SSL support). > > I tried to contact beech@freebsd.org , but > received no reply, has this port become unmaintained? > > --------------070204040909070603050005 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > > > > > The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial. >

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The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad > idea.
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Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot > (development but, supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest but, no > SSL support).
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I tried to contact beech@freebsd.org, > but received no reply, has this port become unmaintained?
> > > > --------------070204040909070603050005-- I have ported 1.8 to irc/eggdrop-devel. I will update the other to 1.6.21 and drop the rooty patch. Upstream has discontinued all support for the patch as it's very buggy. If you need ssl support try the -devel version. Comments are welcome. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------