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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:56:23 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Anthony Elizondo <anthony.elizondo@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Bill Fenner <fenner@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder
Message-ID:  <20060222195623.GA39133@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <a49e62c80602220755j24b6bc3fn5edc9929a17a94e8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200602211004.k1LA4sOS072297@freefall.freebsd.org> <a49e62c80602220755j24b6bc3fn5edc9929a17a94e8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:55:23AM -0500, Anthony Elizondo wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Bill Fenner <fenner@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Dear porters,
> >
> >   This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of
> > unfetchable distfiles at http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ .
> > In particular, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with distfile
> > problems, which currently has 205 bad ports, is
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html
> >
> > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get
> > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative.
>=20
> I've tracked down audio/snack. The distfile can be found at
> http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/dist/snack2.2.9.tar.gz
>=20
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Bill "distfiles" Fenner
>=20
> No problem! One bit of oddness, though. Can you look at ports like
> mail/exact? The author publishes and URL like
> http://adju.st/dist/exact/exact-1.41.tar.gz (at
> http://adju.st/dist/exact/) but is actually a 302 to insert a session
> key. Is there any way to mark something like that as "good" so it
> won't show up as red in that list?

The ports tree doesn't fetch through redirects, so this is accurate.

Kris

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