Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:56:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Xscreensaver source server broken Message-ID: <20050424152309.V97630@goodwill.io.com>
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It appears to me that the xscreensaver-gnome port is broken in that the source server (at jwz.org) will not reliably serve the source file. In particular, it serves a truncated file for xscreensaver-4.21.tar.gz . A review of google results for "xscreensaver freebsd truncated" will show this has been a widespread (some 254 hits) problem reported to this and other freebsd lists since at least March 2004 (when the version was 4.15). Attempts to fetch this file manually via http and ftp fail, with the servers reporting the correct size for the file, but truncating it after about 17k has been transfered. Version 4.21 does not appear to exist at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ either. I am of the opinion that ports should not use known broken servers, even when the broken server is the author's - and this goes double for ports that will break such undertakings as the gnome upgrade script. The file can be found at: http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/unix/src/misc/ . -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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