Salut Alain, i just realized that you seem to have removed a couple of bogus files from your mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz distribution tarball.
While i certainly appreciate your effort to actively maintain the mtools software, i should like to respectfully draw your attention to the fact that changing published distribution files in place may cause problems for software packagers and redistributors, even when the changes themselves are apparently harmless. For example, the OpenBSD ports tree implements automated file size and checksum tests in order to assure distfile integrity before using or unpacking any distribution file dowloaded from the Internet. For that reason, it is generally preferable to publish changed distribution files under different names even when the changes themselves are trivial. How are we going to proceed now? Is someone going to replace mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz on the OpenBSD mirror network, patching /usr/ports/sysutils/mtools/distinfo at the same time? Thank you very much for your consideration, Ingo P.S. In case i misinterpreted the situation, sorry for the noise... -- Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $ mkdir knaff; cd knaff $ ftp http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz Trying 129.13.186.3... Requesting http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz (via http://proxy.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:3128/) 100% |**************************************************| 342 KB 00:00 Successfully retrieved file. $ ll mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 schwarze wsrc 351077 Apr 8 08:50 mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz $ cd ..; mkdir linux; cd linux $ ftp http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz Trying 129.13.186.3... Requesting http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz (via http://proxy.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:3128/) 100% |**************************************************| 342 KB 00:00 Successfully retrieved file. $ ll mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 schwarze wsrc 351077 Apr 8 08:56 mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz $ cd ..; mkdir openbsd; cd openbsd $ ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz Connected to openbsd.sunsite.ualberta.ca. [...] 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz (387208 bytes). 100% |**************************************************| 378 KB 00:04 226 Wow, that seems to have worked. 387208 bytes received in 4.53 seconds (83.51 KB/s) 221 Goodbye. $ ll mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 schwarze wsrc 387208 Apr 16 2005 mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz $ cd ../knaff; tar -xzf mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz $ cd ../openbsd; tar -xzf mtools-3.9.10.tar.gz $ cd ..; diff -ur openbsd/mtools-3.9.10 knaff/mtools-3.9.10 Only in openbsd/mtools-3.9.10: .#fat_size_calculation.tex.1.1 Only in openbsd/mtools-3.9.10: .#mtools.spec.1.4 Only in openbsd/mtools-3.9.10: .#mtools.texi.1.11 Only in openbsd/mtools-3.9.10: .#patchlevel.c.1.18
