On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:56:40AM -0400, Jacob Moorman wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 11:07, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:11:24AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > > 
> > > ...the fist site, prdownloads.sourceforge.net, seems to be returning HTML
> > > instead of files.  the second site, ftp3.* is working fine.  i don't have
> > > a web browser installed ATM, so i've attached a copy of, for example,
> > > 'aterm' and 'netpbm'...looks like they're bloat'ifying thier mirror
> > > system.
> > 
> > Taken from the cvs log for bsd.pkg.mk:
> > 
> > ----------------------------
> > revision 1.973
> > date: 2002/05/07 17:50:38;  author: agc;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
> > branches:  1.973.2;
> > Sourceforge seem to have implemented a new policy, whereby an http
> > request to the prdownloads.sourceforge.net site, which used to return
> > the distfile, now returns 8KB (roughly) of html, including
> > advertisements, and a link to the real distfile.
> > 
> > Delete prdownloads from the MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE list (sadly,
> > because it seemed to be the quickest way to download files from
> > sourceforge).
> > ----------------------------
> 
> 
> A fix for this particular issue has already been committed to the
> FreeBSD ports source base.  I suspect that a similar fix could be
> applied to your ports system, as well, if desired.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk
> Revision 1.82 

Well, the cvs log for bsd.pkg.mk which was quoted above *was* the
change I made to our packages collection, almost two months ago.

The change I made wasn't desired, but rather forced upon us. I
wonder if you could perhaps give us a bit of warning next time you
plan to do something like this, please? It inconvenienced a number
of our users quite a lot.

Thanks,
Alistair