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Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/skype



On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:50:06PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I can see the point of not failing the package for the set of people who
> have an ancient distfile.  But it seems that when the distfile is not
> present, as it will be for all new users, the package build should fail
> quickly and clearly, not trying to fetch from the known-broken
> MASTER_SITE, and not trying to fetch from mirrors that we know aren't
> permitted to host a copy.

I've added a FETCH_MESSAGE that should address your suggestion.

Thanks,
 Thomas


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