FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

Vitaly Magerya vmagerya at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 11:45:34 UTC 2012


>>>>> portname:           graphics/vrml2pov
>>>>> description:        Convert VRML files to POVRay source
>>>>> maintainer:         ports at FreeBSD.org
>>>>> status:             BROKEN
>>>>> deprecated because: unfetchable
>>>> This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a
>>>> problem in the vrml2pov port. 
>>> No, it's a "No one cares enough about this port to step forward
>>> and maintain it" problem.
>>
>> Er, as of a few hours ago (when I tried it), the URL in the distfile
>> link on vrml2pov's download page *exactly* matched the URL that the
>> port tries to fetch.
> 
> The default FETCH_ARGS include -A which makes fetch fail on redirects;
> this is presumably because some sites redirect rather than return 404
> when a file is not found. In cases when redirect needs to be followed,
> you need to override FETCH_ARGS in the port's Makefile.
> 
> See the attached patch (I hope it'll get through the list). I can submit
> a PR, or some brave committer can apply it right away...

Oh, it's actually appears to be fetchable the way it is right now, just
remove the BROKEN lines.


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list