On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 05:01:16PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017/04/13 17:53, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It seems as if the books/utp port points one of its MASTER_SITES to
> > 
> >     http://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/
> > 
> > I believe that this ought to be
> > 
> >     ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/
> > 
> > (s/http/ftp/)
> > 
> > It also looks as if the other (original) site, which is also the
> > HOMEPAGE,
> > 
> >     http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/
> > 
> > has gone dead (and has been that way for some time).
> 
> That should be removed too then.
> 
> Can you find an http mirror anywhere? Generally better to have that
> rather than ftp as the first site in MASTER_SITES if possible.

I've spent a bit of time looking for a mirror, but everyone, even
O'Reilly, is linking to the off-line home.windstream.net site:

    http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

The UTP revival project was started from the groff mailing list.  I'll
re-subscribe to it and ask...


Cheers,


> 
> 
> > 
> > I have included a patch that points the functioning MASTER_SITES to the
> > right place.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kusalananda
> > 
> > 
> > P.s.  I was part of the team that helped revive the UTP book, doing some
> > of the proof-reading.  So I'm quite happy to see that OpenBSD has a port
> > for the thing.  :-)
> 
> > Index: Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/OpenBSD-CVS/ports/books/utp/Makefile,v
> > retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> > diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 Makefile
> > --- Makefile        19 Dec 2015 22:13:58 -0000      1.1.1.1
> > +++ Makefile        13 Apr 2017 15:47:39 -0000
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ COMMENT =           comprehensive book on unix te
> >  
> >  V =                        1.0
> >  DISTNAME =         utp-$V
> > +REVISION =         1
> >  
> >  CATEGORIES =               books
> >  
> > @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ MAINTAINER =              Anthony J. Bentley <anthon
> >  # CC-BY-1.0
> >  PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM =     Yes
> >  
> > -MASTER_SITES =             
> > http://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/ \
> > +MASTER_SITES =             
> > ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/ \
> >                     http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/
> >  
> >  EXTRACT_ONLY =
> 
> 

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