Re: pkg/49906: MASTER_SITE urls with prefixed "-" fail to fetch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49906; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/49906: MASTER_SITE urls with prefixed "-" fail to fetch
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:10:42 +0200

 On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:35:00AM +0000, Christoph Badura wrote:
 >  On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 04:35:03PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  >  On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 05:35:00PM +0000, bad%bsd.de@localhost wrote:
 >  >  > cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/mozilla-rootcerts && /usr/bin/make fetch-list | sh
 >  >  
 >  >  Any reason for not using depends-fetch or depends-checksum?
 >  
 >  Several good reasons:
 >  
 >  pkgsrc.txt documents fetch-list as the official solution.
 
 So it is outdated, not such a surprise.
 
 >  And the problem with depends-fetch is, e.g.:
 >  
 >  ===> Fetching for sysutils/checkperms
 >  => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20121220
 [snip]
 >  => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20121220
 >  
 >  [103 more lines of similar nonsense elided].
 
 and how it is a problem that it prints the tree enumeration? That same
 happens with fetch-list, it is just more aggressive in throwing stuff to
 /dev/null. I'd hardly call it a feature to have no progress report.
 
 Joerg