mail/mixmaster port issue

[RW]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:36:35 +0100
Kurt Jaeger wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > > My portmaster is stopping at mail/mixmaster saying broken
> > > > cannot find file
> > > > 
> > > > Running FreeBSD 11.
> > > > 
> > > > I checked and mixmaster is still avilable at sourceforge.
> > > > 
> > > > Please fix.  
> > > 
> > > Where would you get the distfiles with the same checksum ?
> > > 
> > > Can you provide a URL ?
> > > 
> > > The stuff on sourceforge is 3.0, not 3.0.2d ?  
> 
> > FYI  from the Makefile  
> 
> The Makefile fetches the distfiles from the distcache, not from any
> upstream. So the upstream is no longer available. So the port
> is BROKEN and marked as such.

If it's fetched from FreeBSD's own cache rather than a local cache,
anyone can build it just by removing the BROKEN line. I've never
understood why this is done, what's the point of supporting backup
servers in the ports makefiles if a port is marked as BROKEN every time
it's useful.