[Bug 227600] porter's handbook: use of distinfo

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227600

            Bug ID: 227600
           Summary: porter's handbook: use of distinfo
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: freebsd at dreamchaser.org

If you have a distinfo file that does not match the tarball you are attempting
to fetch, the ports mechanism fails fetching the tarball with the following
misleading message:

=> nufraw-0.41.tar.gz is not in
/hd2/home/garya/Computing/ports/graphics/nufraw/distinfo.
=> Either /hd2/home/garya/Computing/ports/graphics/nufraw/distinfo is out of
date, or
=> nufraw-0.41.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.

In the general description of the fetch phase, it should mention that if a
distinfo file is present, it *must* match the tarball being fetched.  I had the
impression distinfo was only used after the tarball was fetched, during the
extract phase.  When upgrading a port it's easy to forget there is already a
distinfo lying around.

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