FreeBSD ports/distfiles archives

[RW]

On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:41:52 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "infoomatic" <infoomatic at gmx.at>,
> | 
> | is there any public archive for pkg/ports/distfiles for FreeBSD
> 10.X? 
> 
> The readme at
> 
> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
> 
> states that distfiles can be fetched by name from
> 
> http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/

Sometimes there's a subdirectory. From ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:


  MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=    \
        http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

The port should go there automatically as a last resort. If you've
already tried to build the port then most likely the file isn't there. 


You can make a port try there first by passing

  -DMASTER_SITE_FREEBSD 

to make. I wouldn't make it the default as it can prevent the port
picking-up a new version of a rerolled file.