| Summary: | Fix port: security/f-prot | ||||||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | Tim Bishop <tdb> | ||||
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | tdb | ||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Tim Bishop
2003-11-09 15:20:20 UTC
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:15:38PM +0000, Tim Bishop wrote:
>
> >Number: 59082
> >Category: ports
> >Synopsis: Fix port: security/f-prot
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
> >State: open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class: maintainer-update
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 09 07:20:20 PST 2003
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Tim Bishop
> >Release: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD pendennis.ukc.ac.uk 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #5: Wed Sep 17 15:50:07 BST 2003 tdb@pendennis.ukc.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PENDENNIS i386
>
> >Description:
> Fix the md5 sum for this port's distfile. I've compared the
> old and new tarballs, and the only difference seems to be
> the definition files (which are binary, so I can't really
> compare them)
>
> This worries me slightly because I suspect they periodically
> rebuild the tarball with new definition files. Is there a
> solution to a problem like this?
Did you ask software developers about it ? They should explain
why they do such things with software.
-Kirill
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > >Description: > > Fix the md5 sum for this port's distfile. I've compared the > > old and new tarballs, and the only difference seems to be > > the definition files (which are binary, so I can't really > > compare them) > > > > This worries me slightly because I suspect they periodically > > rebuild the tarball with new definition files. Is there a > > solution to a problem like this? > > Did you ask software developers about it ? They should explain > why they do such things with software. I am in the process of doing so. In the short term, could this PR be comitted so that the port at least works for now? Cheers, Tim. -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > This worries me slightly because I suspect they periodically > > rebuild the tarball with new definition files. Is there a > > solution to a problem like this? > > Did you ask software developers about it ? They should explain > why they do such things with software. They admitted it was just to update the virus definitions (this is a virus checker). Can we commit this PR now? -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984 State Changed From-To: open->closed Checksum wasn't changed, try to build the port. |