Recently `make fetch-urlall-list` was broken: from non-root, % make fetch-urlall-list => /usr/distfiles/ is not writable by you; cannot fetch. I don't need write access to ${DISTDIR} to print fetch list!
A commit references this bug: Author: mat Date: Sun May 29 08:02:28 UTC 2016 New revision: 416087 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/416087 Log: Fix fetch-list and fetch-url-list-int when DISTDIR is not writable. PR: 209820 Reported by: amdmi3 Sponsored by: Absolight Changes: head/Mk/Scripts/do-fetch.sh