Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:32:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unifying WWW: pkg-descr lines for cpan ports Message-ID: <p06230909bf491bb2a676@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200509102222.j8AMMubj032724@bright.research.att.com> References: <200509102222.j8AMMubj032724@bright.research.att.com>
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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. I suspect that will be confusing for users, and they will then ask about their mysterious file-corruption problems on the mailing lists. Or maybe I've just got the wrong idea of what this means... (the first phase seems perfectly fine to me, of course) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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