FreeBSD ports: 2 unfetchable distfiles: x11-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf, x11-toolkits/jdic

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> Le Jeu 21 jui 07 à 12:04:30 +0200, Bill "distfiles" Fenner  
> <fenner at freebsd.org>
>  écrivait :
>> Dear thierry at freebsd.org,
>>
>> 	You are listed as the FreeBSD port maintainer for 2 ports
>> whose distfiles are not fetchable from their MASTER_SITES.  Could
>> you please visit
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/thierry@freebsd.org.html
>
> It seems that the reminder has a problem with https URL: both of them
> get the error
>
> 500 Can't locate object method "new" via package  
> "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket" (perhaps you forgot to load  
> "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket"?)
>
> Ref.:
> <http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/x11- 
> fonts.html#liberation-fonts-ttf>
> <http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/x11-toolkits.html#jdic>

This is a good analysis, however, it is at least arguable that port  
maintainers should try to make distfiles available without needing  
SSL...  :-)

-- 
-Chuck