On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Perry E. Metzger <pe...@piermont.com> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:25:16 +0530 Jackson Isaac > <ijack...@macports.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Recently I took upon a journey to try to update ports >> which are tagged as 'nomaintainer' and noticed that >> some of the ports give out false positives during livecheck. >> >> This is due to the reason that upstream decided to tag a >> newer version without actually updating the code / tarball. >> Also the upstream seem to be inactive since the last changes >> were made >5 years ago. >> >> Few of the ports that I have noticed till now are: >> 1. aacgain >> 2. chemtool >> >> I will be updating the list and probably put it up on wiki, so that >> in future we don't spend time looking for the updated tarballs. > > Rather than putting this in the Wiki, is there a way to fix the > Portfile so that we don't get a false positive trigger? Then people > don't have to manually consider the problem. >
One possible way as suggested on IRC is to add a comment in the Portfile as to why it cannot and/or won't be updated further (in case of inactive upstream) and removing the livecheck regex. -- Jackson Isaac