Re: [exim] Broken distribution?

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Author: Igor Karpov
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To: Giuliano Gavazzi
CC: exim users
New-Topics: exim tarball size. Was: Re: [exim] Broken distribution?
Subject: Re: [exim] Broken distribution?
Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
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> On 14 Feb 2006, at 16:24, Igor Karpov wrote:
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>> ok, I have this file among my distfiles, so I really don't need to
>> download it. I only wanted to warn others, so I've tried to download
>> it from two different boxes with different connections to the Net and
>> got the same result on both ones. BTW, I've tried again a minute ago
>> - nothing's changed. Let's hope it's a temporary fault.
>
> the temporary problem is that the real repository is a bit overloaded,
> but the file

Yes, now it's ok.
> you downloaded has got nothing wrong. It is just an HTML page with a
> meta refresh to the location of the file.

It's breaking (at least) FreeBSD ports retrieving schema. Mirrors and
local repositories are full of such HTML files for maintainers to clean out.