Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:47:19 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Nick Rogers <ncrogers@gmail.com> Cc: maintainer@dansguardian.org, author@dansguardian.org Subject: Re: www/dansguardian revival? Message-ID: <b28a8d926970cbdb4d76fd23f8f161a4@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <CAKOb=YZyE%2BVnNNkQvEpw8bP=0FqSQtw56CjkoT4G9Dd43HitVw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKOb=YZyE%2BVnNNkQvEpw8bP=0FqSQtw56CjkoT4G9Dd43HitVw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:08:43 -0700 Nick Rogers <ncrogers@gmail.com> wrote > Hello, > > I recently learned that the www/dansguardian port was deprecated due to its > dependency on the old www/squid port (squid 2.7). Is there any way this > port can be revived? I've been using it for years with great success > against newer versions of squid (3.3, 3.4). Usually I would just change the > RUN_DEPENDS to look for squid33 or squid34. The squid dependency could > arguably be removed entirely because all dansguardian does is proxy www > traffic to squid - it doesn't really matter what version it is and the > application itself does not require the squid port to run. Point being, the > port works just fine as is (was). In fact, it would work in its last-known > state correctly now that squid34 is simply www/squid. I realize the > maintainer has not updated the port in a while, but I've been using > dansguardian with FreeBSD for nearly the last decade and it is unfortunate > to see it removed as a port simply because the previous state of the squid > ports was undesirable. > > It would be great if this could be added back. Clearly I am not the only > one still using it. > > I've CC'd the current dansguardian source code maintainer and author in > hopes they can assist and find a new maintainer for the FreeBSD port. > > Thanks. > > -Nick Unless theirs any objection. I'll take it. I'll open a pr(1) with a shar(1) ready, in about an hour. --Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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