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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:46:29 -0400
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject:   Re: Unifying WWW: pkg-descr lines for cpan ports
Message-ID:  <200509102346.j8ANkT1S002122@bright.research.att.com>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn p??e v so 10. 09. 2005 v 19:32 -0400:
>> At 6:22 PM -0400 9/10/05, Bill Fenner wrote:
>> >The disadvantage of this second phase is that if the port is for
>> >an older version of the module, that the WWW: URL will point to
>> >the most recent version.
>> 
>> I am a little uncomfortable with this.  If I understand this right,
>> this means the "download" step of a port will succeed, only to have
>> the "checksum" step fail.
>
>This is all about changing WWW lines in pkg-descr, right?

Right.

>No one's touching Makefile or distinfo.

Right; no chance of Garance's scenario.

  Bill



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