On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:48:37 +0000 Steve Wills <st...@mouf.net> wrote:
> On 06/01/13 11:17, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > I'm preparing a port and I fail downloading the sources, although > > the base URL and the target tar ball are expanded correctly. But > > the fetch process then complains with this: > > > > [...] > > ===> pocl-0.8.0 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found > > => pocl-0.8rc1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist > > in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pocl/files/pocl-0.8rc1.tar.gz fetch: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pocl/files/pocl-0.8rc1.tar.gz: Moved > > Temporarily > > > > If one the takes the error line named > > > > fetch http://sourceforge.net/projects/pocl/files/pocl-0.8rc1.tar.gz > > > > and issue it directly on the console, surprisingly the the fetch > > works! This is weird. > > > > What is wrong here? Is this a bug in fetch? > > Nothing is wrong here. The "=> Attempting..." line is not trying to > tell you what command it is running, but rather what it is doing. > This result is perfectly normal due to the default args that ports > pass to fetch. See bsd.port.mk: > > 2214 FETCH_ARGS?= -AFpr > > The fetch man page will explain these further. > > For Sourceforge, there is a "SF" macro in bsd.sites.mk which you > should use so that users will try the various mirrors. Many ports use > this, so there are many examples to follow. > > Steve Thank you for clearify this. Even if I use the SF macro and set FETCH_ARGS= to en ampty string (I suppose this will result in a "plain" fetch command without options) the result is as described intially. Applying the -v option to fetch then shows what happens and everything looks fine to me so far - except that the Makefile-Port-Fetch doesn't work. This is strange!
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