This is the long-awaited maintainer update of the net/spread port. * Following upstream release 3.17.0 (bugfixes and autoconf'd) * Installs a shlib rather than a .a * Tools now dynamically linked * New rc.d script * Java library split out into a new port (to follow shortly) * 3.17.0 library is not backwards compatible with 3.16.2 Structurally a great deal has changed. I'm therefore sending this as a sharball rather than a diff (the diff would be larger and harder to read). Committer please note: the following files are added (A) or removed (R) R files/patch-FreeBSD_makefile R files/patch-arch.h R files/patch-data_link.c R files/patch-session.c A files/patch-Makefile.in A files/patch-auth-ip.c A files/patch-auth-pword.c A files/patch-spread.c A files/spread.sh Please also put the source distribution in a MASTER_SITE_LOCAL subdir and update the Makefile (around XXX) appropriately. The upstream does not prohibit distribution; unfortunately their standard download requires a click-through. Committing this also closes PR ports/44002. TIA Joshua.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Commited, thanks. Instead of fetching the distfile from your site, I have, because of their download restrictions, not put in a MASTER_SITE but let the user know about the download site and tell him what to do.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:14:50PM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:32PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > The reason why I put it in was because there is no way I can download > > this file from the official site without having fill in a form. > > Although I understand your effort in making it downloadable via > > alternative channels (which makes it easier for automatic checking > > et al), I don't think it's fair to the original authors who wanted > > to have this limitation. > > I'm not sure they're too sensitive about it. I'd like to have > Spread continue to appear as a package, so I'll ask the authors > directly (they don't bite :)) if they're comfortable with external > distribution for our purposes (as their license implies). Hi, Please consider the following an acceptance by the authors, and set MASTER_SITES= http://www.roughtrade.net/distfiles/ accordingly! (and remove the IGNORE=) I believe such a commit will be in line with the current freeze exception. There is a performance issue with spread on 5.0 which I will need to resolve shortly, but I think this needs to go in ASAP. Secondly, what happened to the split Java library port ? It desperately wanted to be committed with the maintainer update, because the previous port had it "built in". Can we obtain a special dispensation ? Regards, Joshua. On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:32:34AM -0500, Jonathan Stanton wrote: > I can tell you that we have decided to offer the download like you > describe. I just won't be able to have it up realistically until next > week as I'm out of town all day thursday and friday. > > If you can host it until then, if that is needed I'd appreciate it. Is > this what you need? > > Jonathan > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:29:28PM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Jonathan Stanton wrote: > > > Ok. We would like to encourage Spread's inclusion in OS distributions -- > > > Even if we don't know about them it gets it out to lots of people and if > > > they use it, they will come to our website anyway for updates and > > > information. I'm also hoping to get a 3.17.1 out in the next week or so, > > > so I'll try to make the new download available at the same time. Does > > > that work for you? > > > > I know I'm spamming you here :) but... FreeBSD 5.0 just entered > > "ports freeze", pending the release intended for Dec 15. If we can > > get it to autobuild very soon (via an open download) then a Spread > > binary package will be included in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. > > > > If it's ok with you I can temporarily host the tarball, but I need a > > definite acceptance before the Project will ok it. > > > > Joshua. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathan R. Stanton jonathan@cs.jhu.edu > Dept. of Computer Science > Johns Hopkins University > ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message