Re: pkg/47054 (benchmarks/super_pi: source unfetchable and restricted)

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47054; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>
To: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/47054 (benchmarks/super_pi: source unfetchable and restricted)
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:26:03 +0200

 On 10/13/2012 13:28, Robert Elz wrote:
 > Perhaps this is why you're seeing different results than most of the rest
 > of us, we're probably all using ftp, whereas you are apparently using
 > fetch instead (my reading of the ftp code in libfetch, which fetch uses,
 > suggests that it is very pedantic about what it requires of the FTP server,
 > the ftp command is far more forgiving).
 
 
 You were right, I was wrong.
 
  > cd /usr/pkgsrc/benchmarks/super_pi
  > bmake -V '${FETCH_USING}'
 ftp
 
 So it's set for ftp as well.
 
 In fact, "bmake FETCH_USING=/usr/bin/fetch fetch"
 doesn't even work.  I get an error about the host name.
 
 Also,
  > env FTPMODE=passive bmake fetch
 did not work. Too bad.