On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Christian Weisgerber: > > > E=education/anki:anki-2.0.52-source.tgz > > > > There is no such error on machines where dpb did not perform a fetch > > run during the brief window when anki-2.0.52 was enabled. > > Actually, I think that's a misunderstanding on my part. I was > comparing dpb -F2 runs on one host with dpb -a runs elsewhere. I > guess when dpb _builds_ packages, it ignores the BROKEN port. When > it purely _fetches_ packages, it doesn't.
Yep, -F will try to fetch everything. If you want an option to ignore BROKEN ports, that's do-able. I think that, by this point, BROKEN all use BROKEN-arch for arch-dependent breakage, so that would still get mirroring of used distfiles done correctly.
