vim ports broken.

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Carlos A. M. dos
Santos<unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Philip M. Gollucci<pgollucci at p6m7g8.com> wrote:
>> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>> matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the vim ports is broken.
>>>>
>>>> Nope not broken just takes a long time to grab that patch since it pulls
>>>> from FreeBSD ftp localdistfiles mirror under obrien
>>>
>>> The port *is* broken:
>>>
>>> # fetch
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/7.2.041%
>>> fetch:
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/7.2.041%: Bad
>>> Request
>>> #
>>>
>>> as fetch cannot handle "%" correctly.
>>
>> sure it can, it just needs '' around the url.
>
> The distinfo file is wrong. Edit it and put the correct data for that patch:
>
> MD5 (vim/7.2.041) = 66bde35426c09d9c666e23215f9a19c9
> SHA256 (vim/7.2.041) =
> 524aa9aeb9f8729fb91289f40a4c5fecf5d0d07d3655c4a38a65abc98f7cd71b
> SIZE (vim/7.2.041) = 22993

Opps, now I got it: the official 7.2.041 patch can not be applied
cleanly so David provided a custom one. Choosing "%" to differentiate
it, however, was a bad idea. It would be better to use a simple
underscore.

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