developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
around at either build-time or at run-time is:
USE_TOOLS+= perl # build-time
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run # run-time
Also remove some places where perl5/buildlink3.mk was being included
by a package Makefile, but all that the package wanted was the Perl
executable.
Changes in version 3.1:
2002-04-10
- 3.1 released
- Client now handles disconnect during "-k" better.
- Combine query into a single string before sending to (possibly)
reduce number of packets sent.
2001-10-26
- Help output and man page generated from text files.
- Fix broken query to non-RIPE servers.
2001-09-17
- Fixed bug where --port didn't allow service specified by name.
Packages Collection.
This is a complete rewrite of the RIPE whois client:
- The networkupdate utility is gone (it was restricted to internal RIPE NCC
nodes anyway).
- The cryptpw utility is also gone (it was not of real use for non-RIPE NCC
users anyway).
- The default command name is now whois3.
- The whois3 client does not check for supported flags at the client side,
except for -h (whois host) and -p (whois port). The syntax checks for flags are
made at the server side.
This package is believed to be the successor of net/ripe-whois-tools which
could problably be removed.
