From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 12 00:27:21 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA29011 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:27:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA28985 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:26:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA13770; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:26:33 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199612120826.JAA13770@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Ports tidy-up sweep To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:26:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612120723.RAA03527@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 12, 96 05:53:01 pm" Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > Ok, I've worked through your list (thanks for that). Here's a summary > of my results; perhaps one or more of the well-connected port-meisters > could take a swing at fixing the problems here? > > These appear to be legitimately orphaned : > ------------------------------------------ > xbakuzan.tar.gz (orphan) (3) > xlockmore-3.11.patches (orphan) > xlockmore-3.11.tar.gz (orphan) > xpdf-0.5.tar.gz (orphan) > (3) Possibly used by jp- port that I don't have locally and > which is missing a files/md5 file. Yes, only you would know, and no, respectively :-). xlockmore-3.11 is old, 3.12 is the current version. xpdf is at 0.6. > It is clear that for some ports, the files/md5 file can't be used. Could > I perhaps campaign for a files/md5.ignore file listing the names of files > which belong to the port but whose checksum should not be checked? That would be easy. Simply creating one should suffice because only the files in ${MD5_FILE} are actually checked. tg