LPRng removed, how can I get a copy of last port before removal?

Stuart Henderson

2016-02-18 11:00:35 UTC

Post by Chris Bennett
Last version from author was 3.8.35 done at end of 2010.
Appears that many useful features are present, many other problems like
Kerberos need removal.
Author said that IPP would start at 4.x.x versions, which have never
been done.
Is using Artistic license.
Has SSL support, which would need to be updated, by someone else. I'm a
USA citizen.
Documentation is moderately OK, but poorly organized and has a lot of
sections which show some examples: "I haven't used but you can see what
you get out of it."
Fixing all the problems and then trying to get IPP support going might
be a good answer to lpd problems.
Chris Bennett

cvs get -P -D 2013/03/17 ports/sysutils/LPRng

*however*...

1) if you read the commit log to the ports Makefile, there have been
a number of security problems over the time it was in ports. Have a look
at upstream commits: have they done anything to improve things?
Commit logs with mention of problems found by static analyzers/fuzzing
tools/etc would be a good sign.

2) there have been no substantial changes to the port since 2003 or so.
It is rarely a good idea to base things on such an old port, there have
been many changes in ports infrastructure since then - it's usually
better to start from a recent Makefile.template and work from there
as a new port, possibly referencing the old one if you get stuck.
But think carefully about 1) first though.