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no update to cvsup in ports-stable



The CVSup servers refuse connection if a user has anything lower than
cvsup-16.1e because of the well published bug in cvsup related to Unix
epoch time keeping in it. 

However, the last one in 
    OpenBSD-ports tag=OPENBSD_2_9_TRACKING_SWITCH
is cvsup16.1a.

On October 3, I changed the port manually dropping one patch that was
applied in the lastest snapshot, leaving three OpenBSD specific and
fixing md5 sums file. I was able to build that port just fine as
cvsup-16.1ep1. After that I did cvsup to get updates for OpenSSH in src.
It returned my cvsup port back to 16.1a (which is not a big deal).

I cvsup-ed today again. No changes to ports tree.

I believe that you have updated the current branch, but I also do
believe that this change is important enough to be committed into all
branches. I'm posting this to tech because it's probably a policy
decision. I think they should be commited, but the "bosses" might
disagree. :-)

There's also an issue of updating checksums in the stable branch. When I
see a failed checksum I hope that the authorised person did the change
on the files, but I also suspect that it might be a cracker. Hence, I
do not build such a port.

I found two such in the stable ports. The one more important is ast-ksh
and I absolutely didn't want to have a shell on which checksum fails.
The maintainer (thanks Christian!) has told me that the change is OK and
that he has updated the md5 file. It's not in the stable though.
I believe that checksum changes deserve to be commited to stable if the
files have the same name as in this case.

The other such port is games/xbl. I didn't consider that one that
important. :-)

Here's my supfile:
==================
*default host=cvsup.ca.openbsd.org
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix compress

# Collections
OpenBSD-src tag=OPENBSD_2_9
OpenBSD-ports tag=OPENBSD_2_9_TRACKING_SWITCH
OpenBSD-xf4 tag=OPENBSD_2_9
==================

Best regards,
-- 
Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@cs.wm.edu>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/