Error: MOVED: net/kblog EXPIRED 2020-08-13 No longer shipped

[Carmel]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 09:12:41 +0200, Michael Gmelin stated:
>> On 16. Aug 2020, at 02:16, Carmel <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 01:22:35 +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder
>> stated:  
>>> ## Carmel (carmel_ny at outlook.com):
>>>   
>>>> [00:00:01] Error: MOVED: net/kblog EXPIRED 2020-08-13 No longer
>>>> shipped [00:00:01] Error: Fatal errors encountered gathering
>>>> initial ports metadata    
>>>   
>>>> Has anyone seen this before, and how do I rectify it?    
>>> 
>>> What it says: net/kblog is gone (with the latest KDE Application
>>> update in r544824, see
>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=544824
>>> for the full commit).
>>> You need to remove that from your ports-list.txt.  
>> 
>> I would have expected to see something in"UPDATING". The only mention
>> is in "MOVED": net/kblog||2020-08-13|No longer shipped  
>
>MOVED is the documented location for this kind of information, see
>
>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/moved-and-updating-files.html
>
>> 
>> Obviously, poudriere cannot handle this situation on its own. To
>> bad.  
>
>Well, it kind of did. You explicitly asked it to build a port that has
>been removed and it informed you about the fact that the port no
>longer exists (and why). What else would you expect it to do?
>
>Best,
>Michael

There were a large number of ports, primarily related to KDE, that were
to be updated. I would have expected poudriere to inform me that a port
was no longer available, perhaps offer me an option to remove said
port, and then proceed to update the remaining ports.

There have been ports in the past that were removed from the ports
system. Poudriere never just 'kicked the bucket' when it encountered
any of them.

I do believe that something should have been mentioned in UPDATING. I
rarely, if ever, read MOVED umless it is mentioned in UPDATING. I read
UPDATING before I ever attempt updating any port(s).

-- 
Jerry


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