Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:14:00 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: scheidell@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port unmaintained since 2005? drop it? misc/gpt* Message-ID: <CAGFTUwNAnRh5wLQbQ6P70fKoqGrGYC1fU4RNCDEjCeF3pyk2gQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:31 AM, <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote: > > Michael Scheidell <scheidell at freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >> Two unmaintained ports, nothing depends on them, and upstream has > >> not updated source since 2004, ftp server unresponsive. > >> > >> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt31/Makefile>; > >> (gpt32: misc/gpt also unmaintained since 2005. > >> > >> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt/Makefile>; > >> ftp server mentioned doesn't respond (ftp.freebsd.org has distfile), > >> upstream unmaintained since 2004, and upstream points to a different > >> distfile (with different checksum and same version number), mentions > >> an alpha version 4.0. > > > > These are originally from NCSA, but the website mentioned in > > the pkg-descr (http://www.gridpackagingtools.org/) now seems to > > be promoting some kind of diet/nutritional approach. =C2=A0The only > > connection to "middleware" that immediately comes to mind is that > > such sites tend to be frequented by those concerned about excessive > > weight around their middle :) > > > > Dunno what (if anything) they are currently good for, but it seems > > that, at a minimum, the PORTVERSION and/or MASTER_SITES -- and the > > pkg-descr -- need to be updated. > > I would have to think that that is a remnant of a project that is no > longer running. The current owners of that domain are squatters: The distribution files are at: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/aces/gpt/releases and the homepage is: http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/gpt/ (And Globus is at: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/ ) Time to determine this: < 1 min. b.
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