Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:21:05 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl>, FreeBSD Ports Resuscitation <freebsd-ports@mailman.berklix.org> Subject: Re: Resurrecting games/wmfortune (Was: Re: misc/jive deleted) Message-ID: <201611080121.uA81L5xa016705@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:27:19 %2B0100." <20161107122719.GA50974@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
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> Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > FYI in case newer than yours, Fonz, I have > > MD5 (9.2-RELEASE/wmfortune-0.241.tar.gz) =3D fa8db5d9a46d9afe7757f498c7= > 81e8c9 > > SHA256 (9.2-RELEASE/wmfortune-0.241.tar.gz) =3D b149067b7e3521f7e03354b= > 12754baaf9c5556af4d286bbd6d169b1db9f6dba0 > >=20 > > It builds & run on my 9.2, I've not tried on current. > > That matches what I've got and appears to be the most recent, thanks. > > Considering the overly aggressive pruning of the ports tree that the > Powers That Be have been conveying (but what to me rather more seems like > attempting to perform intricate neurosurgery using a sledgehammer and a > chainsaw), it's unlikely that a port which is no longer maintained > upstream will be welcomed back into the tree, even though people are > willing to maintain the port and host the distfiles. There probably needs > to be some sort of alternative--or "underground" if you like--tree that > can serve those ports that are not to the liking of a select few (and/or > that have been taken away from the tolerant in order to appease the > intolerant, such as in the misc/jive case). Agreed. I will also contribute deleted working ports. > I'm currently looking into > what's the best way to go about setting up such a supplementary tree. To prevent ports deleters further disruption, I created http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports & cc'd "FreeBSD Ports Resuscitation" <freebsd-ports@mailman.berklix.org> I can offer a FreeBSD server, space for freebsd.org + supplmentary SVN trees, + ftp & http (as used for http://ctm.berklix.org ) . Initially non SVN'd last working copies would be something. We'd next want SVN to maintain it. SVN is already installed on server, I would need to add http support for SVN (suggestions welcome). Hopefully others would volunteer for SVN admin & port meta data recovery. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/#stolen_votes
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