New tools for committers and maintainers

[Emanuel Haupt]

Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:41:28PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:12:23PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > A new tool was just committed to ports, ports-mgmt/distilator.
> > > > It will check for you each of the MASTER_SITES of the port you
> > > > call it with.
> > > 
> > > The link I was given when ehaupt@ ran it included URLs in
> > > pkg-descr too. It even found some of those that were no longer
> > > valid for me.
> > 
> > ports-mgmt/distilator can do that too. It's basically code extracted
> > from the version that creates the distilator report [1] and put
> > into a library.
> 
> Thanks! I didn't mean to imply that distilator could not do that. I
> just wanted to point out that it does more than just MASTER_SITE
> checking. In any case, thank you again for making it. It will be
> quite useful in cleaning up the little things that can go stale over
> time.

You're very welcome :)

Emanuel