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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:32:06 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lena@lena.kiev.ua
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Different variants of the same package on ftp.FreeBSD.org
Message-ID:  <47A22236.8090505@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080131101425.GD741@lena.kiev>
References:  <20080130221700.GA4386@lena.kiev>	<20080131080957.GB80783@k7.mavetju>	<20080131081910.GB741@lena.kiev>	<20080131093644.M15275@FreeBSD.org> <20080131101425.GD741@lena.kiev>

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Lena@lena.kiev.ua wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:37:38AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> 
>>>>> ~ $ host ftp.freebsd.org
>>>>> ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73
>>>>> ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50
>>>>> ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:6c8:6:4::7
>>>>> ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e
>>>>> ~ $ echo -e "dir mathopd*\nquit" | ftp ftp://204.152.184.73/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/
>>>>> Connected to 204.152.184.73.
>>>>> 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
>>>>> ...
>>>>> -rw-r--r--    1 110      1002        56584 Jan 24 06:20 mathopd-1.5p6.tbz
>>>>> ~ $ echo -e "dir mathopd*\nquit" | ftp ftp://62.243.72.50/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/
>>>>> Connected to 62.243.72.50.
>>>>> 220 ftp.FreeBSD.org NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready.
>>>>> ...
>>>>> -rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers     56520 Nov  4 14:48 mathopd-1.5p6.tbz
>>>>>
>>>>> Different sizes, different dates. The November variant is broken
>>>>> (installed package crashes at first connection), the January variant works.
>>>>> I.e. half of users get the broken variant from ftp.FreeBSD.org.
>>>>> Local mirrors contain the broken variant.
>>>>> http://www.freshports.org/www/mathopd  lists last commit on August 13, 2007.
>>>>> How, why different variants?
>>>> I'm not able to find out why the files are there on the 62.243 one,
>>>> but they are from 6.2 while the one from January 24 is the FreeBSD
>>>> 6.3 one.
>>> The November variant crashes under 6.2-RELEASE-p1.
>>> If I build mathopd from ports under the same 6.2-RELEASE-p1 then it works.
>> ftp-master have the January 24. Guess the mirrors are behind in mirroring the
>> stuff. :)
> 
> I already found out how to get working variant. I want to attract attention
> to the fact that for several months ftp.freebsd.org had the broken variant
> which crashes under 6.2 though building from port under my 6.2 gives
> working package. The mathopd port hasn't depencencies at all, one binary.
> How the broken variant was compiled?

 From the ports tree as it was around November 4 2007.  Presumably the 
port was broken back then, and then it was fixed.

Kris




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