ports/59082: Fix port: security/f-prot

Tim Bishop tim at bishnet.net
Mon Nov 10 10:40:15 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR ports/59082; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Bishop <tim at bishnet.net>
To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/59082: Fix port: security/f-prot
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:29:57 +0000

 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
 > > >Description:
 > > 	Fix the md5 sum for this port's distfile. I've compared the
 > > 	old and new tarballs, and the only difference seems to be
 > > 	the definition files (which are binary, so I can't really
 > > 	compare them)
 > > 
 > > 	This worries me slightly because I suspect they periodically
 > > 	rebuild the tarball with new definition files. Is there a
 > > 	solution to a problem like this?
 > 
 > Did you ask software developers about it ? They should explain
 > why they do such things with software.
 
 I am in the process of doing so. In the short term, could this PR be
 comitted so that the port at least works for now?
 
 Cheers,
 Tim.
 
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