From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 03:33:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154401065692; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 03:33:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-150-251.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1231614E69C; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 03:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F31ECFC.4030007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:33:16 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120201 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <201202070829.q178TNZw081740@portsmonj.FreeBSD.org> <4f324a97.Hab0ctxtpiOZet2I%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4f324a97.Hab0ctxtpiOZet2I%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, portmgr-feedback@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion 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: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:33:18 -0000 On 02/08/2012 02:12, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > linimon@freebsd.org wrote: > >> portname: graphics/vrml2pov >> description: Convert VRML files to POVRay source >> maintainer: ports@FreeBSD.org >> status: BROKEN >> deprecated because: unfetchable > > This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a > problem in the vrml2pov port. No, it's a "No one cares enough about this port to step forward and maintain it" problem. > "make fetch-recursive" reports > > fetch: http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/vrml2pov/dist/v0.7/vrml2pov-src.zip: Moved Temporarily > > and gives up after the attempt from ftp.FreeBSD.org also fails. > However, Firefox successfully downloads the distfile from the > chemicalgraphics.com URL. The infrastructure needs to handle > redirections. That's arguable, but once again it's an issue that no one has stepped up to fix. FWIW, I find this firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-headers really useful to track down where the real URLs are .... especially for SF sites. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/