From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 21:52:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E8016A401 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jre@girlcat.org) Received: from fepweb09.charter.net (fepweb09.charter.net [209.225.8.109]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CCB513C4BC for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jre@girlcat.org) Received: from aa09.charter.net ([10.20.200.161]) by mtao01.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20070327213011.IOZP1417.mtao01.charter.net@aa09.charter.net> for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:11 -0400 Received: from [172.10.11.197] (really [24.247.229.162]) by aa09.charter.net with ESMTP id <20070327213010.VFSD26943.aa09.charter.net@[172.10.11.197]> for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46098CDB.5080502@girlcat.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:03 -0400 From: jre User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: Subject: broken port! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:52:54 -0000 Hello, The last two releases of FreeBSD include this port, and, once built, constantly complains about no working P: lines, despite valid configuration files from previous (and current) versions which *do* work on other operating systems (OpenBSD) and older FreeBSD distributions. When inquiries were made to the various support irc networks and freebsd channels, the generic response was "use something more maintained like ratbox or bahamut." While this ended up being our solution, it probably doesn't look to cool to have broken ports in the default FreeBSD tree, so I decided to send this message to the port maintainer. *irc-2.11.1.1 * The "Internet Relay Chat" Server Long description | Package | Sources /Maintained by:/ ports@FreeBSD.org /Also listed in:/ Ipv6 Port description for irc/irc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Irc is a functional replacement for and improvement to talk(1). Talk is an old, primitive, atrocious, minimalist sort of keyboard/screen conversation tool, using a grotesque, machine-dependent protocol. Irc does everything talk does, but with a better protocol, allowing more than 2 users to talk at once, with access across the aggregate Internet, and providing a whole raft of other useful features. Thank you much, -jre