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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:27:40 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Many ports recently marked BROKEN/unfetchable that aren't broken?
Message-ID:  <36ep-w1dv-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e8d43aaa-f581-7580-0243-2b962706c07b@FreeBSD.org> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:44:29 %2B0000")
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Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On 15/11/2019 15:25, Nick Rogers wrote:
>
>> For me the affected ports were sysutils/pftop, sysutils/zfs-stats, and
>> sysutils/stress, which worked just fine before this commit. Apologies if I
>> am missing something, but it seems like they are not actually broken?
>
> If you were building these ports previously, then you probably have
> the distfiles in your local distfiles cache already.  That will give
> the impression that everything is fine if you just try and build the
> port. If you didn't have a cached copy of the distfiles, then you'ld
> probably have a rather different experience.

Another copy maybe cached on FreeBSD mirrors. Here's how to check:

  $ make checksum TRYBROKEN= MASTER_SITE_BACKUP= DISTDIR=$(mktemp -dt distfiles)



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