Re: dpb doesn't forget invalid distfile

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber:
>
> > E=education/anki:anki-2.0.52-source.tgz
> >
> > There is no such error on machines where dpb did not perform a fetch
> > run during the brief window when anki-2.0.52 was enabled.
>
> Actually, I think that's a misunderstanding on my part. I was
> comparing dpb -F2 runs on one host with dpb -a runs elsewhere. I
> guess when dpb _builds_ packages, it ignores the BROKEN port. When
> it purely _fetches_ packages, it doesn't.

Yep, -F will try to fetch everything.

If you want an option to ignore BROKEN ports, that's do-able.

I think that, by this point, BROKEN all use BROKEN-arch for arch-dependent
breakage, so that would still get mirroring of used distfiles done correctly.