Re: [6.4-stable] distfile can't be fetched for devel/p5-YAML-XS

On 2018/12/07 22:42, Charlene Wendling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The distfile for devel/p5-YAML-XS cannot be fetched in 6.4-stable [1].
>
> I'm proposing a patch that uses CPAN_AUTHOR to circumvent this. Thanks
> to juanfra@ for saying me it's acceptable!
>
> Just to be sure, i issued a 'make test', it passes without issues [2].
>
> Charlène.
>
>
> [1] http://ix.io/1vth
> [2] http://ix.io/1vtz

These logs are definitely small enough to be worth inlining in the mail,
it makes it easier to comment on ;)



>
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/p5-YAML-XS/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.20
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.20 Makefile
> --- Makefile 19 May 2017 05:16:54 -0000 1.20
> +++ Makefile 7 Dec 2018 21:26:49 -0000
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> COMMENT = YAML implementation using XS and libyaml
>
> MODULES = cpan
> +CPAN_AUTHOR = TINITA
>
> V = 0.65
> DISTNAME = YAML-LibYAML-$V
>

I'm OK doing this for 6.4 as a workaround but ...

| >> Fetch https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/YAML-LibYAML-0.65.tar.gz
| ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found
| >> Fetch https://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/YAML-LibYAML-0.65.tar.gz
| ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found
| >> Fetch https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/YAML-LibYAML-0.65.tar.gz
| ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found

... it seems distfiles mirrors are removing things a bit aggressively,
I would really expect files used in 6.4 to stick around.