net/liveMedia live.2004.11.11.tar.gz not fetchable agian

[Frank J. Laszlo]

Michael Johnson wrote:

>
> On Nov 13, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Frank J. Laszlo wrote:
>
>> Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
>>
>>>     I might well be able to do somthing you said, but I don't
>>>     like it:-).  On the other hand, I'll automatically commit
>>>     liveMedia.  The first, I'm watching liveMedia site by cron,
>>>     and if it is updated, my program will report to my cell-phone
>>>     (with an e-mail function).
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like a lot of work to me. The ports dont really have a way to 
>> address snapshots very well. of course the pkg-plist would be one 
>> issue to combat, Too bad there isnt a way for the ports to 
>> auto-generate the pkg-plist. Good luck you you :)
>
>
> I can tell you a good reason not to do this, say someone hacked 
> live.com and changed some code around and made a new release with bad 
> code.
> This has happened before, look at bitchx.org. You're more incline to 
> catch it if you manually upgrade the program.
>
> Michael


Good point. I totally agree with that.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo