On Thu, November 28, 2013 19:43, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Kirill Bychkov <ki...@linklevel.net> wrote:
>
>> All this story started from the problem with dead MASTER_SITES. After some
>> searching I've found that file is hosted on SF [0], but with another name -
>> logcheck with the same size and checksum.
>> I've decided to change it's name from logsentry to logcheck, but after
>> another
>> search on marc.info I've found out that it was renamed many years ago in
>> reverse [1].
>
> I think this should be briefly documented in a comment in the
> Makefile.
>
How about this:
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/security/logsentry/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 Makefile
--- Makefile    28 Nov 2013 10:54:09 -0000      1.10
+++ Makefile    28 Nov 2013 21:05:34 -0000
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@

 COMMENT=       logfile auditing tool

+# There was an attempt to rename logcheck to logsentry
+# upstream in 2003. Only tarball with sources was renamed
+# and no changes to sources had been done.
+# OpenBSD port was renamed after upstream.
+# There is no reason for reverse renaming after ten years.
+# Currently only old-named distfiles are availiable.
 DISTNAME=      logcheck-1.1.1
 PKGNAME=       logsentry-1.1.1
 REVISION =     5

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