Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:54:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to resurrect ltrace from Attic? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109180752090.40954@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20110918070012.GB7561@lonesome.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109180636010.80106@tiktik.epipe.com> <20110918070012.GB7561@lonesome.com>
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:45:21AM +0000, Janne Snabb wrote: >> I noticed that someone has removed sysutils/ltrace for some reason. > > If we pull up the page on CVSWeb: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/ltrace/Attic/Makefile > > We find: > > 2011-08-08 sysutils/ltrace: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfiles > > (or, you could take a look in ports/MOVED, which has the same info) > > For CVS, you could note the date on that page, and then subtract a bit > from the commit date, and then do: > > cd /usr; cvs co -D 20110731 ports/sysutils/ltrace > > You would have to modify that if your ports are not in /usr/ports, of course. > > If you were not using cvs to get your ports, well, AFAIK you'll have to > do some manual operations, e.g., for each file in: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/ltrace/Attic/ > > click on filename, go to previous revision, click download ... > > ... at least, for the files that existed at removal time. (e.g. pkg_comment > and pkg_plist were removed years ago, and are thus were no longer needed even > before the port was removed.) Also, saving a backup copy of the distfile somewhere outside of /usr/ports might be a good idea. Sometimes distfiles from old ports are very difficult to find, and automated port tools might prune them from /usr/ports/distfiles as obsolete.
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