svn commit: r460727 - in head/devel: p4 p4/files p4api p4api/files

[Alan Somers]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 08:43:52AM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Antoine Brodin <antoine at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > > > Author: asomers (src committer)
> > > > Date: Fri Feb  2 19:07:21 2018
> > > > New Revision: 460727
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/460727
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   devel/p4 devel/p4api: build from source
> > > >
> > > >   Build devel/p4 and devel/p4api from source rather than use the
> prebuilt
> > > >   binary downloads. This fixes p4api on FreeBSD 12.  The ports
> > > originally used
> > > >   the binaries because source wasn't available until a few years
> ago.  By
> > > >   happy accident, building from source also makes the ports
> available on
> > > >   non-Intel architectures.
> > > >
> > > >   PR:           225613
> > > >   Reviewed by:  brd
> > > >   Approved by:  brd (ports)
> > > >   Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp
> > > >   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14162
> > >
> > > Those 2 ports still fail to "make checksum".
> > >
> > > Antoine
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up.  I think I see what's going on here.  Perforce
> > seems to be rebuilding those zip files with a cron job that runs once per
> > day or so.  The file content of the zipped files hasn't changed since
> > 1-Feb, but all of their timestamps have.  This asinine behavior is going
> to
> > make it impossible for ports to verify the checksum, though we can still
> > verify the file size.  I'll try to teach the port to do that.
>
> Do not teach the port how to ignore checksum.
> It would be better to ask upstream to not do whatever thing they are
> doing.
> Failing that, and if possible, hosting a copy of the "working" distfiles
> in LOCAL/something.
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
>

Upstream is intransigent.  I've tried before.  How do I host a copy?