The following reply was made to PR pkg/33785; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Steve Brown <steve@daedilus.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33785 (www/apache and www/apache2 cannot download source tarballs)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:35:47 +0100

 On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 09:24:39AM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
 > My apologies - I might have been better off raising this within the 
 > pkgsrc-users mailing list.  Sorry for any trouble that this has put you 
 > to.  My machine was never able to get past http://apache.towardex.com/,
 
 I've removed that mirror this morning. You can also use "pkill ftp"
 in such cases as a last resort.
 
 > so I never managed to get the package from the NetBSD location.
 
 That shouldn't happen. It might admittedly take quite a while.
 
 > I amended the Makefile and added the override in as below, which has 
 > resolved my issue of installing the package.
 
 That's good news.
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/