Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:54:21 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portlint's FATAL warnings Message-ID: <20030615035421.GA83994@mail.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <bcg9ds$1gok$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20030612222636.GA27898@mail.it.ca> <bcg9ds$1gok$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:00:12PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> > EXTRACT_ONLY= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
> > MASTER_SITES+= http://hostname/path/:1
> > DISTFILES+= somefile.html:1
>
> problem: somefile.html is unversioned. This is bad. What happens
> when the file changes? What happens to existing copies on distfile
> mirrors?
Hrm; yeah, I'd need to update the port to alter the distinfo, without a
version number change. Would be confusing, and highly annoying if he
changes the page often. The "test -f" problem would stop a page update
from breaking the port, but that's a punt.
The port in question is security/proxycheck, which I submitted recently.
The HTML file contains usage examples and hints that aren't included in
the man page or elsewhere in the dist tarball (which is versioned). I
could just make a pkg-message that points people to it, or I could
maintain my own (versioned) version at a URL independent of the original
author's....
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.
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