>Number:         23724
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       devel/rapidsvn: distfile is hard to obtain (maybe impossible)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 12 09:05:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6T   (-- pkgsrc current as of now)
>Organization:
	Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.6T NetBSD 1.6T (DELTA) #42: Thu May 29 12:23:16 ICT 2003 kre@fuchsia.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/obj/sys/DELTA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Ever since the rapidsvn package was created, the distfile it requires
	has been impossible to obtain (I first tried soon after the package
	appeared, and have been trying again, at least once a day, ever since)
>How-To-Repeat:
	rm ..../distfiles/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
		(second thoughts, don't remove it, you may never get it back again)
	cd ..../pkgsrc/devel/rapidsvn
	make fetch

Expect to see this from the master site ...

=> Attempting to fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz from http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/.
=> [457162 bytes]
Requesting http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Redirected to http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Requesting http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Redirected to http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Requesting http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Redirected to http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Requesting http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Redirected to http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Requesting http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Redirected to http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Requesting http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=8734
Redirected to http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
Requesting http://www.tigris.org/files/documents/341/8734/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz
ftp: Too many redirections requested

After which the various backup sites are tried ...
	[much ftp noise deleted below]

=> Attempting to fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/.
=> [457162 bytes]
550 /pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory.

=> Attempting to fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.cz.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/.
=> [457162 bytes]
550 rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory.

=> Attempting to fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/.
=> [457162 bytes]
550 rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory.

=> Attempting to fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/.
=> [457162 bytes]
550 No such file.
221 Goodbye.
=> Couldn't fetch rapidsvn-0.4.0.tar.gz - please try to retrieve this
=> file manually into /home/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/src/pkgsrc/devel/rapidsvn
*** Error code 1

	I have attempted to fetch the file manually as instructed, the home page
	has a link to the appropriate file, everything looks as if it should be
	fine - but when attempting to fetch it, the web server explains that the
	file doesn't exist after all (most likely it is getting the same redirection
	loop as the ftp attempt above)

>Fix:
	Complain to whoever is responsible for the mess, so it can get fixed, or
	someone who has the distfile, stick it on ftp.netbsd.org so it can be
	fetched from there, or simply remove the package completely if there isn't
	going to be a distfile for it.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: