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From:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: SITES n/a (geo/ncview)
To:
Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org, Martin Reindl <martin@catai.org>
Date:
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:09:02 +0200

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Le Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:43:45AM +0200, Marco van Hulten a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> At the moment the dist tarball of geo/ncview cannot be fetched.  The
> author of the software put up a reason relating to the California
> verification law:
> 
> https://cirrus.ucsd.edu/ncview/
> 
> Fetching is not possible now.  Does this become a problem for the
> existence of the port and package?

no, because the tarball has been mirrored by the ports infra/mirror
network:

/usr/ports/geo/ncview/ $make fetch
1777028887===>  Checking files for ncview-2.1.11
1777028887>> Fetch https://cirrus.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview/ncview-2.1.11.tar.gz
ftp: Error retrieving https://cirrus.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview/ncview-2.1.11.tar.gz: 403 Forbidden
1777028888>> Fetch https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/ncview-2.1.11.tar.gz
ncview-2.1.11.tar.gz 100% |*********************|  1219 KB    00:02