net/liveMedia live.2004.11.11.tar.gz not fetchable agian

[Michael Johnson]

On Nov 13, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Frank J. Laszlo wrote:

> Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
>
>> 	I might well be able to do somthing you said, but I don't
>> 	like it:-).  On the other hand, I'll automatically commit
>> 	liveMedia.  The first, I'm watching liveMedia site by cron,
>> 	and if it is updated, my program will report to my cell-phone
>> 	(with an e-mail function).
>>
>
> Sounds like a lot of work to me. The ports dont really have a way to 
> address snapshots very well. of course the pkg-plist would be one 
> issue to combat, Too bad there isnt a way for the ports to 
> auto-generate the pkg-plist. Good luck you you :)

I can tell you a good reason not to do this, say someone hacked 
live.com and changed some code around and made a new release with bad 
code.
This has happened before, look at bitchx.org. You're more incline to 
catch it if you manually upgrade the program.

Michael
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