Status of USE_GITHUB fetching

Steve Wills swills at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 9 13:07:15 UTC 2013


On 06/07/13 22:32, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 6/6/2013 8:26 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> Ports using USE_GITHUB are currently broken. Github changed their
>> tar/compression algorithm which has resulted in mismatched checksums.
>>
>> I am working on changing our implementation and updating all affected
>> ports and should have the fix committed by this weekend, after enough
>> testing.
>>
>>
> 
> Github fixed the checksums issue.
> 
> You will see random 'size not known' warnings. These should be harmless.
> It's due to how they have implemented their download streaming.
> 

Are you saying this might happen once and be resolved or that it will be
ongoing and not resolvable?

Steve



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