From: Peter Moss <pm@klmpost.com>
Subject: Re: sysutils/xbatt - unable to fetch sources
To: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:44:35 -0400

Thank you Jonathan, it makes more sense now.

On 8/26/25 04:10, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> That would normally be handled with patch files.
> See the update-patches parts of
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html
>
> and the bsd.port.mk(5) manual page.
>
> You'll also want to increment REVISION in the port's Makefile.
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 03:17:15AM -0400, Peter Moss wrote:
>> Thank you Jonathan,
>>
>> I works. I was able to download the source code and compile it.
>>
>> Just a newbie question.
>>
>> I see the sources have been downloaded to distfiles and compiled from there.
>>
>> If I want to update (locally) the sources in this package, I have to update
>> the
>> tar.gz file? I only see the sources untared in the pbj directory and are
>> recreated
>> every time I do make clean;make build. Is that how this package building
>> works?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Peter
>>
>> On 8/26/25 02:14, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 02:02:02AM -0400, Peter Moss wrote:
>>>> The makefile for sysutils/xbatt
>>>>
>>>> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/xbatt/Makefile?rev=1.32&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>>>>
>>>> points to
>>>>
>>>>      http://www.clave.gr.jp/~eto/xbatt/
>>>>
>>>> however this site is not reachable.
>>>>
>>>> As a result I am unable to review and compile the source code.
>>> It will download from elsewhere after a timeout.
>>>
>>> $ make fetch
>>> ===>  Checking files for xbatt-1.2.1p5
>>>>> Fetch http://www.clave.gr.jp/~eto/xbatt/xbatt-1.2.1.tar.gz
>>> ftp: connect: Operation timed out
>>>>> Fetch https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/xbatt-1.2.1.tar.gz
>>> xbatt-1.2.1.tar.gz 100% |*******************************| 12779       00:00
>>