From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 11 0:26:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-6.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5092537B40D for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D450F66D0B; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:26:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/30497: ftp.freesoftware.com no longer exists Message-ID: <20010911002647.A11571@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200109110040.f8B0e3588090@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010911132055.B897@k7.mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010911132055.B897@k7.mavetju.org>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:40:03PM -0700, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > From: "David W. Chapman Jr." > > To: Dan Larsson > > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, > > Kris Kennaway > > Subject: Re: ports/30497: ftp.freesoftware.com no longer exists > > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:32:05 -0500 > >=20 > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:45:03AM +0200, Dan Larsson wrote: > > A patch to remove this from the ports would be better accepted and=20 > > I'm sure some action would actually take place then. >=20 > Making a patch isn't a problem, but what to do with ports which > suddenly don't have a master-site anymore (for example games/xnecko > and x11-toolkit/linux-gtk)? Locate a new site which carries them, or ask a committer to host them on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL if no existing mirror can be found. Kris --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nby2Wry0BWjoQKURAjujAJ9tAn8D1WpJekx5bCk6nRlHO6njDwCg9IwP gcri/MN6dA4Bged0by+oLi8= =Mrsw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message