Re: Retiring lpr and lpd

In message <[email protected]>, John Baldwin 
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> On 2/21/26 10:07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Cy Schubert <[email protected]> writes:
> >> I have extracted lpr/lpd and friends into its own repo on GH and will
> >> create a port sometime next week or two.
> > 
> > Let me get this straight, you intend to create a port for software which
> > is still in base (and is expected to remain there for at least another
> > year) and is known to be severely buggy?
>
> Uh, this is our standard operating procedure for moving things out of base,
> and Cy has helped with many of these:
>
> /usr/ports/net/44bsd-rdist
> /usr/ports/shells/44bsd-csh
> /usr/ports/sysutils/44bsd-more
> /usr/ports/audio/freebsd-13-mixer
> /usr/ports/ftp/freebsd-ftpd
> /usr/ports/misc/fortune-mod-freebsd-classic
> /usr/ports/net/freebsd-route6d
> /usr/ports/net/freebsd-routed
> /usr/ports/net/freebsd-telnetd
> /usr/ports/net/freebsd-uucp
> /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-bsdlabel
> /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-fdisk
> /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-shar

It is a simple task to extract or more accurately scope out anything that 
is not lpr using git-filter-repo. The five or ten minute process has been 
documented in a wiki page. From there a person needs to create a port.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
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