FreeBSD Port: wget-1.8.2_6

Jeff Bachtel jeff at cepheid.org
Mon Apr 18 14:22:44 PDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:03:41PM -0400, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I'm just curious why we are hanging on to Wget 1.8.x as we are. The Wget
> website clearly states "The latest stable version of Wget is 1.9.1.". In
> fact, we don't even have the 1.9.x line in ports (ftp/wget is 1.8.x,
> ftp/wget-devel is 1.10.x).
> 
> Why not bring ftp/wget up to 1.9.x ?

Why not read the Makefile?

# Ports collection makefile for:  wget
# Date created:                   31 December 1996
# Whom:                           Thomas Gellekum <tg at FreeBSD.org>
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/ftp/wget/Makefile,v 1.73 2005/03/09 06:53:02 simon Exp $
#

# NOTE: I would like to skip wget-1.9 and wait for stabilization.
#       Please don't push me to update. Thank you.

> 
> Thanks,
> Adam


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