ports/169054: Can't install irc/eggdrop
Beech Rintoul
beech at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 14 21:06:09 UTC 2012
On 6/14/2012 10:30 AM, James Wade (Phurix) wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/169054; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "James Wade (Phurix)" <james.wade at phurix.co.uk>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: ports/169054: Can't install irc/eggdrop
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:05:34 +0100
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> The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial.
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> The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad idea.
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> http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39
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> Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot (development but,
> supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest but, no SSL support).
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> I tried to contact beech at freebsd.org <mailto:beech at freebsd.org>, but
> received no reply, has this port become unmaintained?
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> The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial.
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> <div>The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad
> idea.</div>
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> <div><a href="http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39">http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39</a>
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> <div>Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot
> (development but, supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest but, no
> SSL support).</div>
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> </div>
> <div>I tried to contact <a href="mailto:beech at freebsd.org">beech at freebsd.org</a>,
> but received no reply, has this port become unmaintained?</div>
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I have ported 1.8 to irc/eggdrop-devel. I will update the other to
1.6.21 and drop the rooty patch. Upstream has discontinued all support
for the patch as it's very buggy. If you need ssl support try the -devel
version.
Comments are welcome.
Beech
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