libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw ---> What does it mean?

E. J. Cerejo ejcerejo at optonline.net
Wed Feb 13 03:08:56 UTC 2008


James wrote:
> E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>> Trying to upgrade libopensync022 and I get this error even though 
>> libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2 tarball is in /usr/ports/distfiles.
>>
>> => libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw doesn't seem to exist in 
>> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> => Attempting to fetch from 
>> http://www.opensync.org/attachment/wiki/download/.
>> fetch: libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw: stat()
>> => Attempting to fetch from 
>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
>> fetch: libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw: stat()
>> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
>>
>>
>> Why is it trying to fetch libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw ? 
>> Instead of libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?  I can't even rename it to that 
>> name!
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> I downloaded it just fine from the Makefile. It seems to extract itself 
> entirely reasonably, though the name definitely looks peculiar. Visiting 
> their website, it seems to randomly come and go whether I can access the 
> download page. Try cding into the port directory and typing make a few 
> times a few minutes apart.
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I tried that, it still does the same thing.  I was able to compile it 
though.  Had to edit the Makefile a little and downloaded it manually.


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