Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:55:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, lioux@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: lang/f2c (fwd) Message-ID: <200111261955.fAQJtu853803@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011126143353.A4807@databits.net> "from Pete Fritchman at Nov 26, 2001 02:33:53 pm"
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Pete Fritchman said: > ++ 26/11/01 11:31 -0800 - Steven G. Kargl: > | > line in pkg-descr. As a result WWW and FTP lines were merged into one > | > long line, which of course confused unfetchable distfiles checker. > | > | This is insane. Why is the distfile checker looking in pkg-descr > | for places to fetch the distfile from. There is only one place, > | which is listed in the Makefile. (I suppose a tarball might be > | available from a FreeBSD.Org machine.) You can go hunting all > | over Netlib, but you won't find f2c-freebsd.3.0.0.tar.gz Netlib > | is listed because you can get the unchanged f2c source there. > | See the FreeBSD-current mailing list from 3 years ago to learn > | more. > > As stated in the automatically generated email from fenner@FreeBSD.org: > > Note that the main port web page, as listed in the WWW: line > of the pkg-descr, is checked just as though it was a port distfile. > This is an unfortunate side effect of the architecture of the distfile > survey reporting system, but if you see a distfile being reported as > not fetchable that's not actually a distfile, see if it's from the > pkg-descr. > Then, fix the distfile survey reporting system script! -- Steve http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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