Unfetchable distfiles reminder

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:55:23AM -0500, Anthony Elizondo wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Bill Fenner <fenner at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Dear porters,
> >
> >   This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of
> > unfetchable distfiles at http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ .
> > In particular, the list of ports with no MAINTAINER with distfile
> > problems, which currently has 205 bad ports, is
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/ports@freebsd.org.html
> >
> > Since no one is responsible for these ports, the problem won't get
> > fixed unless someone on this list takes the initiative.
> 
> I've tracked down audio/snack. The distfile can be found at
> http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/dist/snack2.2.9.tar.gz
> 
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Bill "distfiles" Fenner
> 
> No problem! One bit of oddness, though. Can you look at ports like
> mail/exact? The author publishes and URL like
> http://adju.st/dist/exact/exact-1.41.tar.gz (at
> http://adju.st/dist/exact/) but is actually a 302 to insert a session
> key. Is there any way to mark something like that as "good" so it
> won't show up as red in that list?

The ports tree doesn't fetch through redirects, so this is accurate.

Kris
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