cvs commit: ports/sysutils/screenie Makefile pkg-descr

[Erwin Lansing]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:19:18PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> That concern is understandable, but the problems come in down the road 
> when something in the infrastructure changes, and there is no one to 
> update the stale port. Not culling stale stuff is also how you get into 
> situations like I cleaned up recently where you have ports that haven't 
> even been fetchable for years still sitting around because no one pays 
> attention to them.
> 
This case is actually actively taken care of, although of course some
cases will fall through the cracks.  Portmgr does occassionally run a
full build of all ports on the pointyhat cluster with local caching
turned off, forcing all ports to be fetch from the configured
MASTER_SITES.  In fact, I started one just yesterday.  Maintainers will
be informed and unmaintained ports will be marked BROKEN, and lateron
scheduled for deletion.  But like you said, there will still be cases
that will fall through and we do need to get better at removing stale
ports.

-erwin

-- 
Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin at FreeBSD.org
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