Can we bring back sysutils/cronolog?

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Sat Nov 28 10:48:31 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-27 20:53, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> I still use sysutils/cronolog but lately it's been disabled due to
>> the web site vanishing. 
>>
>> I still have the distribution files. Can we put them up somewhere on
>> FreeBSD.org to keep the port alive?
> 
> Using freebsd.org to distribute 3rd-party ports distfiles is not
> possible due to policy reasons, but I can put them up @opsec.eu,
> and if you provide a fallback master site, that would be sufficient.
> 
>> I'm in the process of switching
>> over to FreeBSD 10 (.2) and need to rebuild this port (along with all
>> other ports).
>>
>> http://www.neutralgood.org/~kpn/cronolog-1.6.2.tar.gz
>> http://www.neutralgood.org/~kpn/cronolog-setugid-patch.txt
>>
>> I _could_ host the files myself, but I'm rather bandwidth limited. If
>> needed I'll need to move the files to a better URL.
> 
> There was a 1.7.0 beta at some time -- any ideas where it might be ?
> 
> See sysutils/cronolog-devel.
> 

It seems the source is available on github, but last activity was end of 2013 and there are no releases.
https://github.com/fordmason/cronolog

Perhaps it is possible to fetch the master.zip in the port Makefile ...
https://github.com/fordmason/cronolog/archive/master.zip

-- 
olli


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