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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:10:12 +0200
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:04:11 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:02:39 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> > What, exactly, is the significance of the list at
>> >
>> > 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html
>> > beyond that the ports listed there are unmaintained?
>> >
>> > "make fetch" succeeded for every one of the ~150 ports that
>> > I tried from that list ...
>>
>> Each ports defines a list of mirrors where the distfile should
>> hosted, and the infrastructure append some FreeBSD mirror for
>> convenience.
>>
>> the list represent the number of problematic mirrors.
>>
>> It doen't mean the ports is not fetchable yet, it mean some of
>> its mirrors do not share the distfile anymore.
>
> Any thought of adding that explanation to ~ehaupt/distilator and/or
> to ~ehaupt/distilator/ports@FreeBSD.org-bad.html (or making it more
> prominent, if it is already there)?  All I could figure out was that
> the list had something to do with unfetchable distfiles, thus my
> confusion when "make fetch" succeeded.

Those with unfetchable distfiles are either marked as broken or 
deprecated currently :)
concerning the explanation that would be a good idea, let's see what 
ehaupt think about this.

regards,
Bapt