Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> Choosing "%" to differentiate it, however, was a bad idea. It would > >> be better to use a simple underscore. > > Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has no > > problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are server-side, > > ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it. > POLA: users get surprised by the "Bad Request" answer and think that > the package is broken. So they complain at -ports, generating lengthy > email threads.
I have another suggestion: why not tell it that this specific patch file
should be fetched from the FreeBSD server and not try all the other vim
mirror sites. We have a mechanism to do so, which seems appropriate here.
Johan
--- Makefile.orig 2009-06-25 10:24:08.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefile 2009-06-25 10:21:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
DISTFILES= ${RELEASE}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
PATCH_SITES= ${MASTER_SITES:S|unix|patches/${PORTVERSION:C/\.[0-9a-z]*$//}|}\
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/
+
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/obrien/:local
PATCHFILES!= /usr/bin/jot -s " " -w ${PORTVERSION:C/\.[0-9]*$//}.%03d \
${PATCHLEVEL} 1 ${PATCHLEVEL}
# bits to remove
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.for p in ${BADPATCHES}
PATCHFILES:= ${PATCHFILES:N7.2.${p}}
.endfor
-PATCHFILES:= ${PATCHFILES:S/041/041%/}
+PATCHFILES:= ${PATCHFILES:S/041/041%:local/}
MAINTAINER?= obr...@freebsd.org
COMMENT?= Vi "workalike", with many additional features
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