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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:12:19 +0100
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   bsd.port.mk FETCH_ARGS defaults, why "-A" ?
Message-ID:  <52BE1763.8090105@marino.st>

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For months I've been getting a lot of fetch failures in ports that I
couldn't reproduce outside of them.  It appears it is caused by the
default "-A" passed to fetch.

For example, /usr/ports/emulators/javatari will fail with "make fetch"
but it will succeed with with "make fetch FETCH_ARGS=-Fpr"

I'd like to understand why "-A" is the default.  Clearly many distfiles
could be retrieved that aren't, so I'd like to know what -A is saving us
from, and why that would be worse than the current situation?

Thanks,
John



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