On 6/14/2012 10:30 AM, James Wade (Phurix) wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/169054; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "James Wade (Phurix)" <james.w...@phurix.co.uk> > To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: ports/169054: Can't install irc/eggdrop > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:05:34 +0100 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------070204040909070603050005 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial. > > The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad idea. > > http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39 > > Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot (development but, > supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest but, no SSL support). > > I tried to contact be...@freebsd.org <mailto:be...@freebsd.org>, but > received no reply, has this port become unmaintained? > > --------------070204040909070603050005 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <html> > <head> > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> > The bigger issue here is the SSL patch, it's unofficial. > <div><br> > </div> > <div>The advise from the vendor is that using SSL patches are a bad > idea.</div> > <div><br> > </div> > <div><a > href="http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39">http://www.eggheads.org/news/2011/05/25/39</a> > </div> > <div><br> > </div> > <div>Instead the port should switch to eggdrop1.8-snapshot > (development but, supports SSL) or eggdrop1.6.20 (latest > but, no > SSL support).</div> > <div><br> > </div> > <div>I tried to contact <a > href="mailto:be...@freebsd.org">be...@freebsd.org</a>, > but received no reply, has this port become unmaintained?</div> > </body> > </html> > > --------------070204040909070603050005--
I have ported 1.8 to irc/eggdrop-devel. I will update the other to 1.6.21 and drop the rooty patch. Upstream has discontinued all support for the patch as it's very buggy. If you need ssl support try the -devel version. Comments are welcome. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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"