Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:49:14 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk FETCH_ARGS defaults, why "-A" ? Message-ID: <FF64DFE1-6245-4370-8FD1-77300848CF88@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52BE1763.8090105@marino.st> References: <52BE1763.8090105@marino.st>
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--Apple-Mail=_1F6E7232-AC0E-4C2D-B227-C4A815E914AE Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 28 Dec 2013, at 01:12, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > For months I've been getting a lot of fetch failures in ports that I > couldn't reproduce outside of them. It appears it is caused by the > default "-A" passed to fetch. >=20 > For example, /usr/ports/emulators/javatari will fail with "make fetch" > but it will succeed with with "make fetch FETCH_ARGS=3D-Fpr" >=20 > I'd like to understand why "-A" is the default. Clearly many = distfiles > could be retrieved that aren't, so I'd like to know what -A is saving = us > from, and why that would be worse than the current situation? Crappy download sites that redirect you to ad pages, malware domains, or = worse? -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_1F6E7232-AC0E-4C2D-B227-C4A815E914AE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlK+IBIACgkQsF6jCi4glqOx9gCg4KZnv/K1I9JIJ048OyJn+evL jb0AoLBFVJVoAlfQoy2g69XjfAyNW9xX =DU8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_1F6E7232-AC0E-4C2D-B227-C4A815E914AE--
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