From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 16 15: 0:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE2937B405 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F3543E3B for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7GM0FJU080262 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7GM0FFH080261; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208162200.g7GM0FFH080261@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Christian Brueffer Subject: Re: ports/41716: x11-fonts/webfonts cannot be fetched anymore Reply-To: Christian Brueffer Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/41716; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Christian Brueffer To: Miguel Mendez Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, kkonstan@daemon.gr Subject: Re: ports/41716: x11-fonts/webfonts cannot be fetched anymore Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:01:50 +0000 On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:00:55PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > This port should be deleted IMHO, unless there's a legal way to have a copy > of the font files (which I doubt). > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > >> andale32.exe doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/webfonts. > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/. > fetch: andale32.exe: Not Found > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/. > fetch: andale32.exe: Not Found > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.asia.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/. > fetch: andale32.exe: Not Found > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/webfonts/. > fetch: andale32.exe: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/webfonts and try again. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts. > There are many mirrors of this distfile: http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=ftp&cs=iso-8859-1&ftype=4&q=andale32.exe If there are legal issues with automatically fetching from one of these mirrors, the Makefile could be changed in a way, that requires the user who wants to build this port to fetch the distfile himself. audio/linux-realplayer does exactly this. - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0DB5 8563 2473 C72A A8D1 56EA DAD2 B05D 5F3C 3185 GPG Key ID : DAD2B05D5F3C3185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message