Re: bug with MASTER_SITES change

[Jolan Luff <jolan@encryptedemail.net>]

yes, i'm retarded, but you already knew that.

-jolan

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Marc Espie wrote:

> 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.
>