Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:56:22 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk FETCH_ARGS defaults, why "-A" ? Message-ID: <20131228005622.GH40122@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <52BE20DD.8060403@marino.st> References: <52BE1763.8090105@marino.st> <FF64DFE1-6245-4370-8FD1-77300848CF88@FreeBSD.org> <52BE20DD.8060403@marino.st>
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--9gXqgVhKaPB5h51M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 01:52:45AM +0100, John Marino wrote: > On 12/28/2013 01:49, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > 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. > >> > >> For example, /usr/ports/emulators/javatari will fail with "make fetch" > >> but it will succeed with with "make fetch FETCH_ARGS=3D-Fpr" > >> > >> 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? > >=20 > > Crappy download sites that redirect you to ad pages, malware domains, o= r worse? > >=20 >=20 > And? > The checksum won't match, and the next site in the MASTER_SITES list > will be checked, right? What is the downside of this redirect? Keep in > mind that the site was once "approved" by the port maintainer, it's not > some random URL stuck in a wiki. That's to avoid infinite loop on redirection bapt --9gXqgVhKaPB5h51M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlK+IbYACgkQ8kTtMUmk6Ez2hgCfQpnFdFeczmb8xPO1NshrZLz7 KP0AoIGk+2WHVZiy0xnibvbU+pqP2goE =rS6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9gXqgVhKaPB5h51M--
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