The following reply was made to PR pkg/36489; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, pkg-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36489: wm/openbox - pkgsrc unable to fetch distfile
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:35:04 +0200

 >  If the redirect is not in fact just temporary, then changing the master
 >  site would perhaps make sense - there's no point going somewhere just to
 >  be redirected elsewhere, when we know where we're going to be sent.
 >  Of course, that's useful only if the redirect is fairly stable, and not
 >  something that changes week by week.
 
 I'm an openbox user and I know this same redirection has been in place
 in the past during release times. I committed the alternate master site.
 This should make ftp.n.o pick up the distfiles as well.