On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Hi,
What about removing the -A option from FETCH_ARGS to allow fetch to
follow 302 code.
I've always wondered why we have that in the defaults, perhaps someone
who knows can answer? If it served a valid purpose in the past, but does
not any longer, perhaps it's time to remove it?
It causes trouble when using some authenticated proxies.
It also causes troubles with github which is more and more used. Lots
of projects on github doesn't provides distfiles, they rely on git
tags automatically presented as distfiles, they only way to fetch them
is to follow 302 codes, the workaround is to ask developpers to
provide distfiles.
We have already had the discussion about this issue and we're not going
to be creating ports that download random files from VCS repos. So yes,
the person/team who is responsible for the port will have to provide a
tarball of a known-good version. But that's completely unrelated to the
idea of -A in FETCH_ARGS.
Doug
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