Bug 336499

Summary:	pkg_nofetch could be executed on fetch failure even for ebuilds without RESTRICT=fetch
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) <caster>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434358
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	335925

Description Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-08 23:02:54 UTC

The summary says it. Use case - packages that can be fetched automatically, but license doesn't allow mirroring and upstream changes the distfile keeping the same URL. This would allow to display an explanation to the users so they don't keep retrying or redigesting own file or etc.

Example: sci-geosciences/googleearth see e.g. bug 336331.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-09 23:48:26 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=541d2830bf71d7a3f7bb69d739360ef8112ff7b5

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-10 20:29:07 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.9.3 and 2.2_rc79.