FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfile: www/mod_auth_mysql41_ap2

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:38:55PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> The problem is that the ftp.maske.org ftp server returns an empty
> response to "LIST mod_auth_mysql41_ap2_1.00.tar.gz".  To save
> bandwidth, the distfile checker doesn't actually download any files;
> it just tries the equivalent of an "ls" command on each file
> (or an HTTP "HEAD" for http: or https: URLs).
> 
> If this is a policy of ftp.maske.org, I can create a "blacklist"
> of sites for which I know this algorithm doesn't work.

ftp://cr.yp.to might have the same problem.

Edwin

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