From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 01:40:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608841065670 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F117E150E4B; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E45D610.9040203@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:40:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110811 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <20110810060822.GZ60956@droso.net> <4E42E7F4.5040502@gmail.com> <201108111920.p7BJKGjc021859@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <4E44AEED.7070207@gmail.com> <4E45B36B.8050207@FreeBSD.org> <4e462f34.M0MwnBU6a9phTeTQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4e462f34.M0MwnBU6a9phTeTQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, kworr@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ports-i386@freebsd.org: linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r181.34 failed on i386 9] X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:40:33 -0000 On 08/13/2011 01:00, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > It still leaves the port broken from the disappearance of the > previous distfile until the maintainer has time to update the > port. Yup. > That is likely to be a not-insignificant length of time, > because we cannot reasonably expect port maintainers -- who are > usually volunteers -- to drop everything in order to immediately > fix this sort of problem. For popular ports the intersection of committers who care and are able to do something useful about it is substantially more than zero. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/