This prevents a possible MITM attack described in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/br62hm/freebsd_cryptographic_bypass_and_mitmbased/
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- rP508820: MFH: r508819
rP508819: Force ports depending on a fetch target to actually run checksum.
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Seems reasonable to me. I might expand the comment slightly to "prevents a MITM attack on the dependency."