From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 24 22:53:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0E016A403 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60017.mail.yahoo.com (web60017.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D242C43D69 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:53:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 4480 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Apr 2006 22:53:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ETEnUjDcbeJ6zY/XTEZOXtAjspDJO9W0mcAfkvWtNrLj0hatp/qQOKde3w4hXDW8C7DWiAa4wYxFG0gytbTi6v6oR9evx1fICSev8dFgZvIKEIn16kDD4qvlLS/Qkgu/uZ9zo3CVoyCFUobE1y/IY5M2njglqwwZ4Rc9IRDL8FI= ; Message-ID: <20060424225306.4478.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [70.81.189.3] by web60017.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:53:06 EDT Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:53:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <444D4DF7.9050409@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: availability of distfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:53:12 -0000 --- Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Peter wrote: > > Hi. I have a question regarding how distfiles become available to > the > > ports tree. For example, on freshports it says that a version is > > available (since March 28) for a given port. When I attempt to > install > > the port ("make install clean") I see that FreeBSD is trying to > find > > the distfile for the same version but it fails. When I manually > take a > > look at the distfile location the version indeed does not exist. > So > > how can this happen? > > Ports tree out of date? (doesn't seem overly likely, but...) No. Not on my end. > Hoster problems? Not sure. > Newer version exists? No. > Version change backed out due to security issues? Not sure. > " " " performance issues? Not sure. > Distfiles moved ... (see first one above....) Older versions exist. > Need better MASTER_SITE variable? Not sure how to change. > Bill Fenner does some work on this: see: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html multitail is not listed. Notes: root@sonata:/usr/ports/sysutils/multitail > make install clean ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found => multitail-3.8.10.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/. fetch: http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/multitail-3.8.10.tgz: size mismatch: expected 82860, actual 422 => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/multitail-3.8.10.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/multitail. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com