ncftp broken for more than 6 months

[Helmut Schneider]

Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:30:20PM +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> > Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:09:01PM +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> > > > Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:49:06AM +0000, Helmut Schneider
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140934
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Still patient, but is there a chance to get my backups
> > > > > > succeeding again?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I just committed supposed fix to the HEAD, r208374. You may
> > > > > apply it to stable/8 manually and report back whether it
> > > > > helped.
> > > > 
> > > > Forgive my ignorance, how can I find r208374? I know how to
> > > > access cvs via web or cvsup but that particular patch?
> > > 
> > > This is svn revision for src/, you can see it at
> > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=208374
> > 
> > I'm running RELEASE so I need a certain time to prepare a STABLE
> > installation but I'll report back as soon as possible.
> 
> I think, but did not checked, that the patch is applicable to the
> 8.0 release as well.

I applied the 1-line "patch" you provided in the PR to both my i386 and
amd64 installations (~15 x 8.0-RELEASE-p2) and it seems fine, I also
can not see any negative side effects (probably not expected at all).

Thanks a lot, Helmut

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