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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: tcsh source site question
To:
John McCue <jmclists@jmcunx.com>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 2 May 2026 15:37:00 +0100

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On 2026/05/01 16:03, John McCue wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a while ago, port tcsh has been stuck on tcsh-6.24.10
> but the current release is tcsh-6.24.16.  So I did some poking
> around.

the port was updated to 6.24.16 in February.

> Seems replication to site
> http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/
> is not working, plus seems that site is not is not 'owned' by the
> tcsh developers.  You can see this tread from the tcsh mailing
> list for a brief conversation about that site.
> 
> https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/tcsh/2026-May/000406.html
> 
> Sometime in the future you may want to source from
> site: https://astron.com/pub/tcsh/

we do; ftp.funet.fi is only listed as a fallback. it would probably
make sense to remove the funet.fi mirror as it doesn't have the
distfiles needed for the current version of the port.

> FWIW, I am able to compile and use tcsh-6.24.16.tar.gz on
> OpenBSD 7.8 amd64 without any issues or patches.