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

[b. f.]

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:31 AM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> > Michael Scheidell <scheidell at freebsd.org> 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.
> >
> > These are originally from NCSA, but the website mentioned in
> > the pkg-descr (http://www.gridpackagingtools.org/) now seems to
> > be promoting some kind of diet/nutritional approach. Â The only
> > connection to "middleware" that immediately comes to mind is that
> > such sites tend to be frequented by those concerned about excessive
> > weight around their middle :)
> >
> > Dunno what (if anything) they are currently good for, but it seems
> > that, at a minimum, the PORTVERSION and/or MASTER_SITES -- and the
> > pkg-descr -- need to be updated.
>
> I would have to think that that is a remnant of a project that is no
> longer running.  The current owners of that domain are squatters:

The distribution files are at:

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/aces/gpt/releases

and the homepage is:

http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/gpt/

(And Globus is at:

http://www.globus.org/toolkit/   )

Time to determine this: < 1 min.

b.