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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:09:00 -0400
From:      "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@freebsd.org>
To:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>, Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vim ports broken.
Message-ID:  <4A42256C.3030706@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <e71790db0906231836g390bc94ar35b75c98f20600e5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090619093724.GH3582@obspm.fr>	<28283d910906191559j95c1a32t2a76f5bd766594ad@mail.gmail.com>	<h1o2ni$c2e$1@ger.gmane.org> <4A3FE24B.5080208@p6m7g8.com>	<e71790db0906221523n366335b3sa440524b6a2e8e6c@mail.gmail.com> <e71790db0906231836g390bc94ar35b75c98f20600e5@mail.gmail.com>

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Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Carlos A. M. dos
> Santos<unixmania@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Philip M. Gollucci<pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>>>       
>>>> matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I think the vim ports is broken.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Nope not broken just takes a long time to grab that patch since it pulls
>>>>> from FreeBSD ftp localdistfiles mirror under obrien
>>>>>           
>>>> The port *is* broken:
>>>>
>>>> # fetch
>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/7.2.041%
>>>> fetch:
>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/7.2.041%: Bad
>>>> Request
>>>> #
>>>>
>>>> as fetch cannot handle "%" correctly.
>>>>         
>>> sure it can, it just needs '' around the url.
>>>       
>> The distinfo file is wrong. Edit it and put the correct data for that patch:
>>
>> MD5 (vim/7.2.041) = 66bde35426c09d9c666e23215f9a19c9
>> SHA256 (vim/7.2.041) =
>> 524aa9aeb9f8729fb91289f40a4c5fecf5d0d07d3655c4a38a65abc98f7cd71b
>> SIZE (vim/7.2.041) = 22993
>>     
>
> Opps, now I got it: the official 7.2.041 patch can not be applied
> cleanly so David provided a custom one. Choosing "%" to differentiate
> it, however, was a bad idea. It would be better to use a simple
> underscore.
>
>   
Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has 
no problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are 
server-side, ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it.

-- 
Frank Laszlo
laszlof@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Ports Committer




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