Re: make fetch problem - prdownloads.sourceforge.net

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

Yes, it has been fixed in -current. I'll fix this on the -stable branches
soon.

// Brad

brad@comstyle.com
brad@openbsd.org

>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:46:10 GMT
>From: J.A. Neitzel <jneitzel@otaku.freeshell.org>
>To: ports@openbsd.org
>Cc: jneitzel@sdf.lonestar.org
>Subject: make fetch problem - prdownloads.sourceforge.net
>
>greetings to all =)
>
>please note, i'm not subscribed to this list so please CC any
>follow-ups to me.  in fact, maybe you won't receive this since
>i am not subscribed..?  anyway...
>
>problem report:
>all ports URLs which fetch from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/*
>do not actually fetch a tarball.  i don't know about the sourceforge
>stuff, but what happens is this URL actually refers to a mirror
>redirector type page???
>
>so, i would recommend to revamp sourceforge fetches to the ftp
>server instead.
>EX:
>instead of:
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/blackboxwm/blackbox-0.62.1.tar.gz
>
>you could do:
>ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/blackboxwm/blackbox-0.62.1.tar.gz
>
>version info???  i'm running with a current tree last updated on
>20020501.  maybe it's been fixed since then.  if so, ignore me.
>regardless, i thought it worth to mention.  HTH
>
>btw, thanks for OpenBSD and the Ports tree =)
>--
>cheers,
>Jeffrey Allen Neitzel