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Date:      28 Jul 2000 10:06:25 -0000
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/20240: Update port: net/netcat has bogus master-sites [PATCH]
Message-ID:  <20000728100625.2117.qmail@ringwraith.oblivion.bg>

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>Number:         20240
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Update port: net/netcat has bogus master-sites [PATCH]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 28 03:10:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Orbitel JSCo
>Environment:

The current FreeBSD ports collection.

>Description:

The netcat port lists several MASTER_SITES, but only one of those seems
functional.

From the Makefile:
MASTER_SITES=   ftp://avian.org/src/hacks/  \
                ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/  \
		ftp://zippy.telcom.arizona.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/hacks/  \
		ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mirrors/avian.org/src/hacks/  \
		ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/security/coast/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/

However..

[roam@ringwraith ~]$ ftp
ftp> o avian.org
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> o coast.cs.purdue.edu
Connected to kargad.cerias.purdue.edu.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
ftp> o zippy.telecom.arizona.edu
ftp: zippy.telcom.arizona.edu: No address associated with hostname
ftp> o ftp.sterling.com
ftp: connect: Operation timed out
ftp> o ftp.rge.com
Connected to web.rge.com.
220 FTP server ready.
Name (ftp.rge.com:roam): ^Cftp>
ftp>

OK, so the last one works ;) (I'd be surprised if ftp.rge.com was down..)

>How-To-Repeat:

cd /usr/ports/net/netcat; make fetch

>Fix:

A quick websearch on nc110.tgz finds it on l0pht's website (www.l0pht.com),
with a text by Weld which sounds almost like an author/maintainer's speech.

I'm not really clear on who's netcat's author - the Hobbit within all
the source's comments, or l0pht's Weld - or even whether they are one and
the same person..  Still, l0pht's site seems a good master-site candidate.

--- ports/net/netcat/Makefile	Fri Jul 28 12:49:24 2000
+++ myports/net/netcat/Makefile	Fri Jul 28 12:52:27 2000
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@
 PORTNAME=	netcat
 PORTVERSION=	1.10
 CATEGORIES=	net
-MASTER_SITES=	ftp://avian.org/src/hacks/  \
-		ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/  \
-		ftp://zippy.telcom.arizona.edu/pub/mirrors/avian.org/hacks/  \
-		ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mirrors/avian.org/src/hacks/  \
+MASTER_SITES=	http://www.l0pht.com/users/10pht/ \
 		ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/security/coast/mirrors/avian.org/netcat/
 DISTNAME=	nc110
 EXTRACT_SUFX=	.tgz

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