Re: pkg/47440: `make checksum' doesn't refetch even if FAILOVER_FETCH is set

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47440; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/47440: `make checksum' doesn't refetch even if
 FAILOVER_FETCH is set
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:21:02 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:15:07PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >  On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 09:20:01PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
  >  >  If a downloaded distfile has a bad checksum, `bmake fetch' does
  >  >  nothing to refetch it since it appears to be up-to-date, and
  >  >  `bmake checksum' simply fails.  If you set FAILOVER_FETCH=yes,
  >  >  `bmake fetch' looks at the checksum only if the file was absent
  >  >  to begin with in order to decide whether to refetch it, which
  >  >  doesn't help if the file has already been downloaded but got
  >  >  corrupted on disk.
  >  
  >  This is at least somewhat intentional. Otherwise if upstream does manage
  >  to mess up the distfile, it will retry to fetch the file on every run,
  >  which can add a lot of volume...
 
 How about 'make delete-distfiles' and 'make delete-bad-distfiles'?
 
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 David A. Holland
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