Hi,
I believe mirror.ctan.org would be a better site, as suggested on
https://ctan.org/mirrors
Best
Martin
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa., 7. Nov. 2026,
22:59:
>
> FTP as in the protocol!
>
> pbuild /tmp$ ftp ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.tug.org'
>
> The days of make peek-ftp are behind I think. I'd rather:
> - stop overriding FETCH_CMD. FETCH_CMD isn't intended to be
> used in a port, and -k0 is only useful to talk to an FTP server that
> 1. isn't the first server in the list
> 2. isn't currently available with FTP
> - use a nothern america HTTPS mirror as the second entry in the list,
> https://tug.org is just too overloaded.
> - stop mentioning the TUG FTP server limitation, instead mention the
> base URL to get to the mirror list
>
> ok?
>
>
> Index: Makefile.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/print/texlive/Makefile.inc,v
> diff -u -p -r1.31 Makefile.inc
> --- Makefile.inc 4 Jun 2026 22:39:46 -0000 1.31
> +++ Makefile.inc 7 Nov 2026 21:58:17 -0000
> @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ EXTRACT_SUFX ?= .tar.xz
> V ?= 2026
> DIST_V ?= ${V}0301
>
> -# Note: The TUG FTP server is frequently overloaded and doesn't work with
> -# ftp(1)'s keepalive implementation.
> -FETCH_CMD = /usr/bin/ftp -V -m -C -k0
> +# Note: The TUG server is frequently overloaded
> +# https://tug.org/historic/ has a list of mirrors.
> SITES ?=
> https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tug/historic/systems/texlive/${V}/ \
> - ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/${V}/
> +
> https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/${V}/
>
>
> --
> jca
>
>
