current ports Mk make fetch calls wget fails to support schemes

[Shaun Amott]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:39:32PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 
> make fetch used to call src/ BSD licensed fetch
> it now calls FSF GNU licensed wget,
> You can see why it fails with 
> 	cd sysutils/tarsnap ; make fetch-list
> 
> Even after one has found where 
> 	Unsupported scheme
> comes from & tried to work round it with make.conf assertion of
> 	FETCH_BINARY=/usr/bin/fetch
> as shown in bsd.port.mk
> /usr/src/usr.bin/fetch is still not used.
> 
> 	Revert Mk invocation back to longer invoke FSF/GNU licensed
> 	wget & instead again invoke BSD licensed src/ provided fetch,
> 	until such time as wget might be capable of offering all
> 	schemes BSD fetch already does.
> 

fetch is still used by ports, it's just that the tarsnap port overrides
it and uses wget. The Makefile says "Workaround for bug in libfetch(3)";
perhaps it has something to do with the self-signed certificate employed
on the master site.

Try FETCH_CMD if you want to force the use of fetch.

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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
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