Re: pkg/33785 (www/apache and www/apache2 cannot download source tarballs)

[Steve Brown <steve%daedilus.org@localhost>]

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

From: Steve Brown <steve%daedilus.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: tron%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/33785 (www/apache and www/apache2 cannot download source
 tarballs)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:24:39 +0100

 Hi,
 
 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/, 
 so I never managed to get the package from the NetBSD location.
 
 I amended the Makefile and added the override in as below, which has 
 resolved my issue of installing the package.
 
 Thanks for that.
 
 Steve Brown
 
 tron%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: www/apache and www/apache2 cannot download source tarballs
 > 
 > Responsible-Changed-From-To: tron->pkg-manager
 > Responsible-Changed-By: tron%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Responsible-Changed-When: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:20:29 +0000
 > Responsible-Changed-Why:
 > 1.) The "apache2" package in pkgsrc HEAD is already at version 2.0.58
 >     whose source tarball is available on all the defined master sites.
 > 
 > 2.) The "apache2" package in the pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch can still be
 >     built without problems because the source tarball can (and will
 >     automatically) be fetched from "ftp.netbsd.org" or one of its mirrors.
 >     This can be sped up by setting "MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE" to e.g.
 >     "ftp://ftp.uk.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/";.
 >     Because the package works fine and has all the necessary security fixes
 >     there is no critical reason to update it. The purpose of the pkgsrc
 >     branches is not to provide the latest but stable and secure version
 >     of 3rd party packages.
 > 
 > 
 >