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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Google Code as an upstream is gone
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:03:54 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-09-14, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Google Code has been deprecated[1] since March 2015, and read-only since
> August 2015, giving time to software developers to move their
> development some place else. All the distribution files that still use
> solely googlecode.com as their source have been marked BROKEN today in
> r422140[2], as they are not fetchable.
>
> Most software have moved to some other place (mostly on github), all you
> have to do is figure out where and update your ports accordingly.

Or you can simply replace

${PROJECT}.googlecode.com/files/

with

https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/${PROJECT}/

which could have trivially been done in bsd.sites.mk.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de