From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 13:14:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566E437B402 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24001; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:14:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3C83E3B3.6050109@owt.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:14:27 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ImageMagick port: source file not available References: <20020304210104.840A75D07@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 22:05:10 -0800 >>From: Kent Stewart >>Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> >> >>Kent Stewart wrote: >> >> >>> >>>Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>the ImageMagick port requires >>>>ImageMagick-5.4.3-6.tar.gz >>>>but there are only ...5.4.2-3... and ...5.4.3-6... available on >>>>ImageMagick's ftp site. >>>> >>> >>> >>>Re-cvsup your ports-all, the port now requires 5.4.3-9 and will build. >>> >>> >>I take it all back, imagemagick.sourceforge is already up to 5.4.3-10. >> The last time I tried that I upped the PORTVERSION to 5.4.3.10 and >>added an MD5 for the tarball to distinfo. >> >>I have begun to think they are churning their source. You can't turn >>out that many tested sources as they have in the last week or so. >> > > Cristy used to just roll new tarballs with minor fixes all the > time. Now, at least they do update the patch-level in the tarball > name. The problem is that they patch rather frequently and that they > tend to pull old tarballs off of the server as soon as a new one is > ready. Has anyone ever told her that it doesn't produce a feeling of confidence in their users minds. When I see this, I think seriously about whether they can do anything right. I may be wrong but that is the impression it leaves in my mind. Thanks, Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message