Bug 37811

Summary: Change required to SourceForge FTP site
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: dej <dej>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports (Nobody) <ports>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dej 2002-05-07 03:00:02 UTC 
SourceForge has recently re-organized their download area.

A reference to a file of the form http://prdownload.sourceforget.net/dir/blah.tar.gz now gets you a web page requesting that you select a mirror.  It then appears that either redirection or JavaScript is used to perform the download.

As a result, any port whose makefile uses MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE will be unable to retrieve its files.  The web page that it retrieves instead will fail checksum, and the port install will abort.

Fix: 

Edit in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:

Remove all references to sourceforge.net except for telia.dl.sourceforge.net.  You may want to add unc.dl.sourceforge.net as an alternate as well.
How-To-Repeat: cd /usr/ports/lang/tcl8.3
make install
Comment 1 Trevor Johnson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-07 03:33:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE was updated today.  Is it satisfactory now?
Comment 2 Trevor Johnson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-14 01:51:35 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

The problem has been fixed.