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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2019 09:38:18 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r516880 - in head: archivers/xarchiver astro/garmindev astro/opencpn astro/qmapshack audio/carla audio/decibel-audio-player audio/festvox-czech audio/gkrellmvolume2 audio/gnaural audio/...
Message-ID:  <20191109093817.GA52843@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 04:20:59PM -0800, Craig Leres wrote:
> When I ran my test I didn't notice that expat was found at
> distcache.FreeBSD.org. So both the github and sourceforce MASTER_SITES
> were bad.
> 
> What identified this port as unfetchable? What is the mechanism you use
> to find ports with this particular problem?

You can easily test if your ports fetch from their original MASTER_SITES
(not from distcache) by running something like "make checksum DISTDIR=/tmp
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=".

> I would think it preferable for port maintainers to proactively fix
> their ports as problems as these crop up.

Yes, this was a big misstep on portmgr@'s side, I hope they would either
fix pkg-fallout@ bot or find another way to notify maintainers when their
ports stop fetching correctly.

./danfe



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