Re: bug with MASTER_SITES change

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:48:36AM -0500, Jolan Luff wrote:
> fetch is broken on most ports that use ftp sites that have converted
> to the new format due to the existence of double slashes.
> 
> -jolan
> 
Of course not.

You should learn to read error messages, that can be useful.

> example from bzip2:
> 
> marilyn# make fetch |egrep "Retrieiving|local:|ftp:"
> >> Attempting to fetch /usr/ports/distfiles/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz from
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com//bzip2/v102/.
> ftp: local: bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz: Permission denied

Like, duh, maybe it can't write to the local disk thanks to some blunder
you've made.