sysutils/lsof cannot fetch distfile ;;

[Wesley Shields]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:57:46PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:39:21PM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:56:20PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > I was talking about GETTING the distfile onto the freebsd.org mirrors.
> > 
> > I'm working on this now.  I've never had to do something like this
> > before but from what I can gather placing it in ~/distfiles on freefall
> > will eventually get it placed in
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.  I've done exactly
> > this so it should be mirrored out eventually.  If I'm wrong in this I'll
> > have to ask my mentor what the correct procedure is.  For now, you can
> > fetch it manually from the location Larry provided.
> 
> The correct directory is ~/public_distfiles.  See:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#SLOW-SOURCES
> 
> -- Brooks

Thanks.  I've done that and am now awaiting maintainer approval to
commit the necessary changes to the Makefile.  I was hoping not to have
to make those changes because they will just have to be undone
eventually, but such is life I guess.

-- WXS