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

[Dan Langille]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Although if you can show that the distfiles are now fetchable, eg. by:
> 
>      make distclean
>      make fetch
> 
> then by all means please do report it.  A PR with patches is preferred, 
> but any reasonable mechanism for bringing it to the attention of 
> developers is acceptable.

This appears to be a DNS issue.

[dan at pkg01:/usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/sysutils/zfs-stats] $ sudo make makesum
===>  License BSD2CLAUSE accepted by the user
===>  License BSD2CLAUSE accepted by the user
===>   zfs-stats-1.2.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
=> zfs-stats-1.2.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch https://cloud.github.com/downloads/mmatuska/zfs-stats/zfs-stats-1.2.2.tar.gz
fetch: https://cloud.github.com/downloads/mmatuska/zfs-stats/zfs-stats-1.2.2.tar.gz: No address record
=> Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/zfs-stats-1.2.2.tar.gz
zfs-stats-1.2.2.tar.gz                                   9 kB   36 MBps    00s
===> Fetching all distfiles required by zfs-stats-1.2.2_1 for building


[dan at pkg01:/usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/sysutils/zfs-stats] $ host cloud.github.com
cloud.github.com is an alias for d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net.

[dan at pkg01:/usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/sysutils/zfs-stats] $ host d24z2fz21y4fag.cloudfront.net
[dan at pkg01:/usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/sysutils/zfs-stats] $ 

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  Dan Langille
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