From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 21 17:38:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21924 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA21916; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@parc.xerox.com) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <56251(5)>; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:37:11 PDT Received: by crevenia.parc.xerox.com id <177487>; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:36:57 -0700 From: Bill Fenner To: fenner@freebsd.org, itojun@itojun.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: sysutils/mei Cc: ports@freebsd.org Message-Id: <97Oct21.173657pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:36:51 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yuck. I explicitly flag HTTP redirections as being unfetchable, under the assumption that the only reason for an HTTP redirect is to point to the new canonical location, and the old canonical location will be going away soon. Now that there's some history parsing in the results script, the checking script can check the redirected-to URL and log it, and if in the future the original site goes away, the redirected URL will have been logged in the history. Bill