On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Frank J. Laszlo<lasz...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: [...] >> Opps, now I got it: the official 7.2.041 patch can not be applied >> cleanly so David provided a custom one. Choosing "%" to differentiate >> it, however, was a bad idea. It would be better to use a simple >> underscore. >> >> > > Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has no > problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are server-side, > ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it.
POLA: users get surprised by the "Bad Request" answer and think that the package is broken. So they complain at -ports, generating lengthy email threads. -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
