Many ports recently marked BROKEN/unfetchable that aren't broken?

[Jan Beich]

Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On 15/11/2019 15:25, Nick Rogers wrote:
>
>> For me the affected ports were sysutils/pftop, sysutils/zfs-stats, and
>> sysutils/stress, which worked just fine before this commit. Apologies if I
>> am missing something, but it seems like they are not actually broken?
>
> If you were building these ports previously, then you probably have
> the distfiles in your local distfiles cache already.  That will give
> the impression that everything is fine if you just try and build the
> port. If you didn't have a cached copy of the distfiles, then you'ld
> probably have a rather different experience.

Another copy maybe cached on FreeBSD mirrors. Here's how to check:

  $ make checksum TRYBROKEN= MASTER_SITE_BACKUP= DISTDIR=$(mktemp -dt distfiles)