Re: pkg/37834: www/plone3 (and www/plone25) distfile fetch fails

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/37834; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37834: www/plone3 (and www/plone25) distfile fetch fails
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:36:04 +0900 (JST)

 In message <20080121152500.88AFF63B938%narn.NetBSD.org@localhost>
        on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:25:00 +0000 (UTC),
        kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
 > >Description:
 >      The MASTER_SITE forwww.plone3 (and www/plone25) ic
 >      surrently redirecting the download URL to a https://
 >      server (why they believe https is needed for this I
 >      am not sure).
 It is known problem with launchpad.net that suddenly it redirect to
 https.  Once the problem was fixed but it broken again, sigh.
 
 > >Fix:
 >      Easy workaround is simply to manaually fetch the distfiles
 >      using something that does understand https:// (does wget??)
 wget claims certificate when I tried one month ago.
 
 >      For pkgsrc, perhaps the solution is for someone to mnually put
 >      copies of the distfiles on ftp.netbsd.org - then perhaps also
 Unless the storage of ftp.netbsd.org is problem, I would put them there.
 
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 Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>