From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 15:14:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BE516A420; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:14:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834DA43D4C; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:14:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (thor.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f01:290:1::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k17FEtBB030959; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:14:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:14:55 -0600 (CST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley?= To: Bill Fenner In-Reply-To: <20060207090207.U68510@thor.farley.org> Message-ID: <20060207091236.H69148@thor.farley.org> References: <200602071004.k17A4Vtd076872@freefall.freebsd.org> <20060207090207.U68510@thor.farley.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-881143833-1139325295=:69148" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:14:58 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-881143833-1139325295=:69148 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Se=E1n C. Farley wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Fenner wrote: > >> In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is >>=20 >> http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html > > For open-motif, it says: > ftp://ftp.ics.com/pub/Products/Motif/om2.2.3/src/openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz: > looking for file 550 openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory. > (Last OK result NEVER [checked 17 times since Sun Sep 11 16:02:14 2005 > UTC, last time was Mon Feb 6 13:18:45 2006 UTC]) > > It works from the port to fetch it. fetch uses PASV to download it. > With a tool I wrote and curl, which both use EPSV by default, it fails. > I bet the port survey tool is using EPSV. Maybe, ICS has a firewall > that does not understand EPSV so does not open the port for the incoming > connection. I should read more carefully. What I said above is true, but ICS's FTP server does not list the distfile although it exists. That may be the actual problem. I would still watch out for those bad EPSV-ignorant firewalls. :) Se=E1n --=20 sean-freebsd@farley.org --0-881143833-1139325295=:69148--