Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:55:59 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: distfile status - do I have to do something about it? Message-ID: <20110821205559.GA97898@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwNnoVWhO8op1M3oZCRvCn9i4MX7fDwRQCaHiJ36QG49AA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwNnoVWhO8op1M3oZCRvCn9i4MX7fDwRQCaHiJ36QG49AA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:22:08PM -0400, b. f. wrote: > > I maintain these 2 ports: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distilator/mexas@bristol.ac.uk-bad.html > > > > Do I have to do something about it? > > Probably not for the 500s, unless the recur many times. The NXDOMAIN > is more troubling: you should investigate if upstream has moved, or > is defunct. If you can't determine this by other information, and the > site is unreachable, wait a while, to ensure that it is not a > temporary outage with someone's nameserver, and then, if the problem > has not been solved, find another place to host the distfiles, or > deprecate the port. I fixed NXDOMAIN. Some 500s indeed recur many times. I want to fix those too. However, some are defined in Mk/bsd.sites.mk, e.g.: sunsite.org.uk What's the procedure for updating bsd.sites.mk? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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