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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 18:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Jones <dej@ox.org>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/37811: Change required to SourceForge FTP site
Message-ID:  <200205070152.g471qbLD044074@nwww.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         37811
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Change required to SourceForge FTP site
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 06 19:00:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Jones
>Release:        4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
SourceForge has recently re-organized their download area.

A reference to a file of the form http://prdownload.sourceforget.net/dir/blah.tar.gz now gets you a web page requesting that you select a mirror.  It then appears that either redirection or JavaScript is used to perform the download.

As a result, any port whose makefile uses MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE will be unable to retrieve its files.  The web page that it retrieves instead will fail checksum, and the port install will abort.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/ports/lang/tcl8.3
make install
>Fix:
Edit in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:

Remove all references to sourceforge.net except for telia.dl.sourceforge.net.  You may want to add unc.dl.sourceforge.net as an alternate as well.
>Release-Note:
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