pkg/27049: textproc/p5-Pod-Simple bogus distfile from ftp.sunet.se

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>Number:         27049
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       textproc/p5-Pod-Simple bogus distfile from ftp.sunet.se
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 27 10:40:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6X   (-- pkgsrc current as of date/time of this 
>message)
>Organization:
        Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD jade.coe.psu.ac.th 1.6X NetBSD 1.6X (JADE) #17: Wed Sep 24 
20:25:35 ICT 2003 
kre%jade.coe.psu.ac.th@localhost:/usr/src/real-sys/arch/i386/compile/JADE i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
        The copy of the distfile for textproc/p5-Pod-Simple
        (that is: Pod-Simple-3.02.tar.gz) at the cpan mirror
        site ftp.sunet.se is trash.   That is, it has the
        expected number of bytes, but their values aren't what
        they should be ("file" just says "data", gzip doesn't
        recognise it at all...)   I fetched the file multiple times,
        got the same trash each time - it isn't a transfer problem.

        The copy from ftp.uvsq.fr (another of the mirror sites)
        is just fine.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Arrange (via one method or another) to fetch Pod-Simple-3.02.tar.gz
        from ftp.sunet.se and see if you can unpack it...

>Fix:
        Remove ftp.sunet.se from the PERL_CPAN master sites would do it,
        either for just this package, or for everything...

        Or someone could tell the sunet people they have a broken file
        and get them to remove or fix it.

        (I don't regard that as my responsibility - I don't care about
        the file in question, I just want NetBSD's pkgsrc to work
        properly with the world as it is).

        I didn't check all the other mirror sites - but some of them
        either don't let me fetch the file at all (OK, the ftp client
        address I use has no PTR record...) or don't seem to have it,
        or not at pkgsrc's expected path (which is how I got to attempt
        ftp.sunet.se in the first place).
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