port unmaintained since 2005? drop it? misc/gpt*

Michael Scheidell scheidell at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 10 20:23:16 UTC 2012



On 6/10/12 4:10 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> Two unmaintained ports, nothing depends on them, and upstream has not 
> updated source since 2004, ftp server unresponsive.
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt31/Makefile>
> (gpt32: misc/gpt also unmaintained since 2005.
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt/Makefile>
> ftp server mentioned doesn't respond (ftp.freebsd.org has distfile),
> upstream unmaintained since 2004, and upstream points to a different 
> distfile (with different checksum and same version number), mentions 
> an alpha version 4.0.
>
> nothing depends on this (it is to install 'globus'), which I don't see 
> in ports.
>
and, in fact:

grep globus /usr/ports/MOVED
net/globus4||2008-12-07|Has expired: Has been broken for more than 6 months


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