FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion
Yuri Pankov
yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 11:57:05 UTC 2012
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:39 -0800, perryh wrote:
> linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>> 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. "make fetch-recursive" reports
>
> fetch: http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/vrml2pov/dist/v0.7/vrml2pov-src.zip: Moved Temporarily
>
> and gives up after the attempt from ftp.FreeBSD.org also fails.
> However, Firefox successfully downloads the distfile from the
> chemicalgraphics.com URL. The infrastructure needs to handle
> redirections.
"Infrastructure" actually explicitly disallows redirects with 'A' flag
in FETCH_ARGS. If you can't find the URL where it redirects to, you
could specify FETCH_ARGS=-Fpr for such ports.
Yuri
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