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Date:      Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:28:50 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, portmgr-feedback@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion
Message-ID:  <4F325C72.8070005@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4f324a97.Hab0ctxtpiOZet2I%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <201202070829.q178TNZw081740@portsmonj.FreeBSD.org> <4f324a97.Hab0ctxtpiOZet2I%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:39 -0800, perryh wrote:

> linimon@freebsd.org wrote:
>
>> portname:           graphics/vrml2pov
>> description:        Convert VRML files to POVRay source
>> maintainer:         ports@FreeBSD.org
>> status:             BROKEN
>> deprecated because: unfetchable
>
> This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a
> problem in the vrml2pov port.  "make fetch-recursive" reports
>
>    fetch: http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/vrml2pov/dist/v0.7/vrml2pov-src.zip: Moved Temporarily
>
> and gives up after the attempt from ftp.FreeBSD.org also fails.
> However, Firefox successfully downloads the distfile from the
> chemicalgraphics.com URL.  The infrastructure needs to handle
> redirections.

"Infrastructure" actually explicitly disallows redirects with 'A' flag 
in FETCH_ARGS. If you can't find the URL where it redirects to, you 
could specify FETCH_ARGS=-Fpr for such ports.


Yuri



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