[Bug 227600] porter's handbook: use of distinfo

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227600

--- Comment #2 from freebsd at dreamchaser.org ---
You're correct in that the message clearly states that distinfo is out of date.
However, if one is updating a port, one needs to do the fetch before one can
run make makesum to produce an up-to-date version of distinfo.  But one can't
do the fetch if a distinfo is lying around.  A user can easily think "I know
it's out of date, I'm trying to fetch the file and generate an up to date
version!"

The issue is not with the failure message; the issue is with the general
description of the fetch phase in the Porter's Handbook.  It would be helpful
if the Handbook indicated the fetch itself will not succeed if a distinfo is
lying around which does not match the file being fetched.  It is not at all
clear that a mis-matched distinfo will cause a fetch to fail, particularly
since distinfo is not required to be there to perform a fetch, and cannot be
generated until after the fetch is done.

One could also make the message a little clearer, such as:

=> Either /hd2/home/garya/Computing/ports/graphics/nufraw/distinfo is out of
date, or
=> nufraw-0.41.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
=> If distinfo is out of date, delete it before attempting to fetch.

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