From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 29 2: 6:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C0737B5B5 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 02:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca41-197.ix.netcom.com [209.111.208.197]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA26826; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 04:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id BAA24617; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 01:57:59 -0700 (PDT) To: Will Andrews Cc: Vince Valenti , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfile question References: <20000427192806.D546@argon.blackdawn.com> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 29 Apr 2000 01:57:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:28:06 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Will Andrews * On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:14:59PM -0700, Vince Valenti wrote: * > I am currently working on a port for nsyslogd, and the distfile's name is * > just nsyslogd.tar.gz. How should I verify the version that is being * > downloaded? Should I just depend on the md5 not matching if it's the * > wrong version? * * DISTNAME= ${PORTNAME} * * to override the default value * * DISTNAME= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION} I don't think you answered his question.... Yes, you should just depend on the md5 not matching, that's what a few hundred other ports (are forced to) do. Maybe send a mail to the nsyslog maintainers reminding them it's a good idea to put the version string in the filename. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message