As far as I can tell, most people think it's not good for packages to try to fetch things that aren't there more people than not prefer a package to work when the user has a distfile, even if new people cannot get the distfile. So, how about this (in particular, and as a general approach): --- Makefile.~1.33.~ 2011-11-08 19:46:47.000000000 -0500 +++ Makefile 2011-11-09 10:19:08.000000000 -0500 @@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ DISTNAME= skype_static-1.4.0.118-oss PKGNAME= skype-1.4.0.118 PKGREVISION= 1 CATEGORIES= net -MASTER_SITES= http://download.skype.com/linux/ +# Previously, the file was available at +#MASTER_SITES= http://download.skype.com/linux/ EXTRACT_SUFX= .tar.bz2 # see https://developer.skype.com/LinuxSkype/ReleaseNotes for changes +FETCH_MESSAGE= "Distfile is no longer available; manual fetch required." MAINTAINER= pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost HOMEPAGE= http://www.skype.com/ which causes a quick and easily understandable failure for those w/o the distfile, and should work the same as before for those.
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