planetmirror sites

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 20:23:15 UTC 2007


On 4/11/07, Marcin Simonides <marcin at studio4plus.com> wrote:
> Several ports (mainly gtk, gnome etc.) download distfiles from
> public.planetmirror.com sites over HTTP. The problem is that this site
> displays an HTML page ("This download will automatically commence
> shortly...") and then a download is started as a second request.
> This results in fetch fetching the HTML page instead of "real" files.
>
> Here's an exemplary link:
> http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.16/pango-1.16.1.tar.bz2
>
I had a look at the html source for the above page, and it contained a
URL to the file:

http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.16/pango-1.16.1.tar.bz2

> I usually download the files by hand and, after I get fed up, remove all
> planetmirror sites from bsd.sites.mk and am done till the next cvsup ;)
>
> I just wanted to signal this so that appropriate action (whatever that
> is, probably removing the sites from list) can be taken.

Attached is a patch that adds downloads.planetmirror.com to
bsd.sites.mk to all the sites that had public.planetmirror.com listed.

Try the patch and see if it fixes your problem, if it does submit a PR
with the patch.

Scot
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