ports/148353: Change primary source for multimedia/xmms distfile

Joseph S. Atkinson jsa at wickedmachine.net
Sun Jul 4 06:10:02 UTC 2010


>Number:         148353
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Change primary source for multimedia/xmms distfile
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 04 06:10:01 UTC 2010
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joseph S. Atkinson
>Release:        
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>Description:
http://thieta.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/what-ever-happened-to-xmms-org/

It appears that a 3rd party now has control of the xmms.org domain and and is using it to collected ad revenue. The developers are recommending against using the old website as a source for the distfiles.

This patch changes the master site and WWW to point at the new, developer endorsed website.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

diff -ru /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms/Makefile xmms/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms/Makefile	2010-06-07 08:41:56.000000000 -0400
+++ xmms/Makefile	2010-07-04 01:49:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 PORTVERSION=	1.2.11
 PORTREVISION=	9
 CATEGORIES+=	multimedia audio ipv6
-MASTER_SITES=	http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/ \
+MASTER_SITES=	http://legacy.xmms2.org/ \
 		LOCAL/beech
 DISTFILES=	${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
 
diff -ru /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms/pkg-descr xmms/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms/pkg-descr	2009-08-28 12:52:29.000000000 -0400
+++ xmms/pkg-descr	2010-07-04 02:01:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 XMMS --- X Multimedia System. XMMS is a multimedia player based on the look of
 Winamp. Currently it plays mpeg layer 1/2/3, wav, au, CD audio, etc.
 
-WWW: http://www.xmms.org/
+WWW: http://legacy.xmms2.org/


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