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

[Robert Simmons]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:33 AM, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/12, Michael Scheidell <scheidell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/10/12 11:14 PM, b. f. wrote:
>>> 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.
>> glad to know you are volunteering to maintain these ports.
>> I will resurrect globus from the archives (where it has been since 2008,
>> see /usr/ports/MOVED),
>> which email address do you want in the MAINTAINER= line?
>>
>
> Heh, not so fast.  I've got other things to do first.  I was just
> pointing out that it is not so hard to correct some of the stale
> information, and it is useful to do this as a pointer to those who may
> wish to more actively maintain the port later, even if it is moved to
> the attic in a few months.
>
> I should add that globus comes with a bundled version of gpt, and I
> think the Debian port is based upon this -- it's at 3.6.x.  Also, that
> brooks@, who was involved in adding this port and other related
> software, could probably tell you more about grid software.

Well, there may be some users coming out of the woodwork for this
port.  I noticed the following vulnerability alert today:
CVE-2012-3292
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-3292