Try FAILOVER_FETCH, that should work fine in most cases.

On Tue Apr 17 2001 at 00:46:23 +0200, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:
> Sometimes when I do make fetch, I can't fetch the file:
> 
> zuntum@zunpc:/usr/pkgsrc/games/koth# make fetch
> ===> Validating dependencies for koth-0.7.6
> => koth-0.7.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> => Attempting to fetch koth-0.7.6.tar.gz from http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/koth/.
> Requesting http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/koth/koth-0.7.6.tar.gz
>   0% |                                                                                                     |     0       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA^C
> HTTP fetch aborted.
> 
> Nothing was fetched (distfile's size is 0):
> 
> zuntum@zunpc:/usr/pkgsrc/games/koth# ls -l /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/koth-0.7.6.tar.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 Apr 17 01:37 /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/koth-0.7.6.tar.gz*
> 
> But "make fetch" is satisfied with the distfile and doesn't try to fetch it again:
> 
> zuntum@zunpc:/usr/pkgsrc/games/koth# make fetch
> ===> Validating dependencies for koth-0.7.6
> zuntum@zunpc:/usr/pkgsrc/games/koth#
> 
> It would be nice if we could check if distfile's size == 0 && complain.
> Just a wish :)
> 
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