vim ports broken.

[Frank J. Laszlo]

Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has 
no problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are 
server-side, ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it.

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Frank Laszlo
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FreeBSD Ports Committer