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Date:      Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:36:20 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        James Raynard <fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Master site question 
Message-ID:  <199711081836.UAA24395@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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James Raynard wrote:
> Greetings.  I've almost completed a port of SFIO (an improved stdio),
> but have come across a problem with MASTER_SITE.  The tarball is
> available from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/, but cannot
> be fetched automatically, as the user is required to give their name
> and email address before they can download it.

Bummer.

> Are there any other ports in a similar situation?  The "obvious"
> solution is to override do-fetch and print out a message asking the
> user to fetch the source by hand, but I just wondered if there was
> a better solution.

security/fwtk has the same problem.

M
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