libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw ---> What does it mean?

James oscartheduck at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 02:36:29 UTC 2008


E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> Trying to upgrade libopensync022 and I get this error even though 
> libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2 tarball is in /usr/ports/distfiles.
>
> => libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw doesn't seem to exist in 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from 
> http://www.opensync.org/attachment/wiki/download/.
> fetch: libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw: stat()
> => Attempting to fetch from 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw: stat()
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
>
>
> Why is it trying to fetch libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?rev=&format=raw ? 
> Instead of libopensync-0.22.tar.bz2?  I can't even rename it to that 
> name!
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I downloaded it just fine from the Makefile. It seems to extract itself 
entirely reasonably, though the name definitely looks peculiar. Visiting 
their website, it seems to randomly come and go whether I can access the 
download page. Try cding into the port directory and typing make a few 
times a few minutes apart.



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