On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:22:12PM +0100, Christoph Badura wrote:
> > jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
> > >What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Nothing.  The maintainer of the patches changes them every so often and
> > puts the new ones up under the same name.  There's not much we can do about
> > that if the patch author isn't cooperative.
> 
> In such cases, maybe it would be better to have a copy of the "correct"
> source version on ftp.netbsd.org and always have the pkgsrc system fetch
> it there, instead of getting a newer version that doesn't build?

we do have precedence for doing just that.  Of course its always best if
the maintainer of the program can be politely convinced to do some
versioning, but if that fails fetching from ftp.netbsd.org is always an
option.

-Dan