ports/110098: mail/exim does not build

Dennis Oelkers dennis at lauschmusik.de
Thu Mar 8 18:40:07 UTC 2007


>Number:         110098
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       mail/exim does not build
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 08 18:40:06 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dennis Oelkers
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD xxx 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


>Description:
	mail/exim does not build because FAQ.txt.bz2 required by the port is not fetchable. The first url which returns a 200 instead of a 404 delivers a html page instead of the file.

>How-To-Repeat:

% cd /usr/ports/mail/exim && sudo make
=> exim-4.66.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/exim.
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/.
exim-4.66.tar.bz2                             100% of 1547 kB 1490 kBps
=> FAQ.txt.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/exim.
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/.
fetch: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/exim/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.bz2: size of remote file is not known
FAQ.txt.bz2                                             25 kB   24 kBps
===>  Extracting for exim-4.66
=> MD5 Checksum OK for exim/exim-4.66.tar.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for exim/exim-4.66.tar.bz2.
===>   exim-4.66 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found
bzcat: /usr/ports/distfiles/exim/FAQ.txt.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim.
%

>Fix:

	Correct the download location or remove all references FAQ.txt.bz2



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