Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:47:18 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Diane Bruce <db@db.net> Subject: Re: patch for force fetch Message-ID: <20110516194718.GA1818@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <4DD1796F.2000305@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DD0CC21.5050305@FreeBSD.org> <20110516120807.GA34582@night.db.net> <BANLkTi=MKn09fG6SQ2MPdRGNi6rJ=t8biA@mail.gmail.com> <4DD1796F.2000305@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:22:23PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 16/05/2011 19:53 Eitan Adler said the following: > >> I've run into this myself and simply done the manual rm -f. This looks like > >> a great addition. > > > > what about make distclean ? > > Can you please elaborate? > If you mean that I could just run 'make distclean', then my answer is why should > I. I.e. if the ports infrastructure already knows that there is something wrong > with a local copy of a distfile (wrong size, wrong checksum), then it should > just do the right thing and not annoy me to run some cleanup action. I agree. Moreover, I've been thinking about the fetch operation in ports for a while, discussed with linimon@ once. There should be a way to have a little more intelligence in that. e.g. if we are expecting a binary tarball and we get back a html file, we know something has gone wrong. One of these years. -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth?
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