Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:28:59 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: How to find removed ports in general & math/hexcalc in particular. Message-ID: <201401281529.s0SFSxuF033427@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi ports@freebsd.org I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc or replacement it dissapeared after 8.2-RELEASE, it's not in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/math.html How should one find: Why it dissapeared ? (eg maybe it just lacked a maintainer & I have to re-port it? Or ... ? What to replace it with ? A few days ago I tried tracing another port (demime) & ploughed through loads of svnweb pages, dividing by 2 until I found exactly the revision when demime had been removed, but even there no hint why removed or what to use instead. ( Eventually I used emil instead of demime. ) After upgrade, recovering abandoned ports is a chore, What - if any - generalised pointer mechanism, does FreeBSD have for providing a hint of Why a port was deleted, & what to use instead. ( In CVS days I'd have looked in Attic via web, but though 8.2 was CVS days, it'd be better to know the new [SVN] way ? ) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative.
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