On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:23:35AM +1100, kre@munnari.OZ.AU wrote:
> 
> >Number:         11286
> >Category:       pkg
> >Synopsis:       "make fetch" fails to fetch some files
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    pkg-manager
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 22 07:24:00 PDT 2000
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Robert Elz
> >Release:        NetBSD-current 2000-10-22
> >Organization:
> University of Melbourne
> >Environment:
> 	
> System: NetBSD mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.4.2 NetBSD 1.4.2 (MULGA) #0: Wed Apr 26 05:35:11 EST 2000 root@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/MULGA sparc
> 
> 
> >Description:
> 	"make fetch" in pkgsrc fails to fetch some distfiles, either
> 	because "blather is already included in your NetBSD distribution"
> 	or because "blather is not available for NetBSD-$vers-$arch"
> 
> 	Neither of those should prevent the distfile from being fetched,
> 	only from being compiled (for "make" "make install" (etc) the
> 	check should be done, and I suspect is done, before the "fetch"
> 	is started - "fetch" doesn't need to check again).

Maybe the target 'mirror-distfiles' does what you want ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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