From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 2 14:54:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01317 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01221 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:53:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA18096; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:38:35 -0500 Message-ID: <33430C93.20BA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 17:49:07 -0800 From: Pedro Giffuni X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fenner CC: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blas, eispack, linpack need new MASTER_SITES References: <97Apr2.124137pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Fenner wrote: > > Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > fftpack has netlib.bell-labs.com as its master site, which works for me. > I guess bell labs took over netlib while no one was looking? > Yes, someone in AT&T just told me that...att-labs is part of Lucent now, and different from AT&T. > A couple of the blas source files changed, and our f77 can't handle building > it any more. Is someone going to step up to be the MAINTAINER, or should > it get marked BROKEN? > I think f2c is the broken package :(. I heard there is an update. This packages ALL need severe maintainance: The original porters downloaded bazillions of .Z files while they could have downloaded a single .tar file with the .Z files. (The netlib maintainer packs things in a weird manner. I don't have much time now, but if no one else looks into I'll try to help (later). --Pedro. > Bill