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Date:      Sat, 3 Mar 2018 08:49:03 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sourceforge mastersite probelsm
Message-ID:  <22CA4984-0638-457D-9E07-A88B054BCC37@adamw.org>
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> On 3 Mar, 2018, at 8:45, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3 Mar, 2018, at 8:19, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:16 PM, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:16 PM, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to update cad/brlcad to the latest version 7.26.4 so I edit
>>>> the makefile bumping up the port version and the port revision.
>>>>
>>>> Then I remove the old distfile and try running make makesum:
>>>>
>>>> Pre-emptive send!
>>>
>>> Anyways the fetch phase fails and returns:
>>>
>>> Again!!
>>
>> The fetch phase fails with this:
>>
>> make makesum
>> => brlcad-7.26.4.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> => Attempting to fetch
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/brlcad/BRL-CAD%20Source/7.26.4/brlcad-7.26.4.tar.bz2
>> brlcad-7.26.4.tar.bz2                         100% of  652  B 3537 kBps
>> 00m00s
>>
>>
>> If I manually go to the url:
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/brlcad/BRL-CAD%20Source/7.26.4/brlcad-7.26.4.tar.bz2
>>
>> In my browsers, I can download the file no problem.
>>
>> Is there a way to clear cache or something, why is the fetch phase failing
>> with sourceforge?
>
> The problem is just the downloads.sourceforge.net server, which is pretty  
> terrible (slow as molasses) even when it works.
>
> One of the first things I do on a new server is add
> 	127.0.0.0   downloads.sourceforget.net
> to /etc/hosts.conf
>
> Do that and the port will fetch fine for you. Perhaps we should demote  
> downloads.sf.netin bsd.sites.mk.

I should have mentioned, setting RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES=yes in your  
/etc/make.conf or on the command-line is probably the more accepted  
solution. But I prefer to just nuke that server entirely.

# Adam


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