sysutils/lsof cannot fetch distfile ;;

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 18:22 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> > Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> >> see below;;
> >> 
> >> jihad# make fetch
> >> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> >> => lsof_4.79H.freebsd.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist
> >> in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >> => Attempting to fetch from
> >> http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/.
> >> fetch:
> >> http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/lsof_4.79H.freebsd.tar.bz2: 
> >> Not Found
> >> [......]
> >> => Attempting to fetch from
> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> >> fetch:
> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/lsof_4.79H.freebsd.tar.bz2: 
> >> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> >> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> >> *** Error code 1
> >> 
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof.
> >> jihad# 
> >> a few hours ago, i updated /usr/ports by cvsup..
> >> what happened?
> >> 
> >
> >
> > I had this problem.  It turned out that the problem, in my case, was that my 
> > ISP doesn't provide any reverse DNS, and this ftp site requires it.

I see, and thank you!

> I've made it available at:
> http://www.lerctr.org/~ler/lsof_4.79H.freebsd.tar.bz2
> as well.

Thank you, too!

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