Mk/bsd.sites.mk: Skim and update Apache sites
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Authored by michaelo on May 29 2026, 4:34 PM.

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R11:93ac1e350d3a: Mk/bsd.sites.mk: Skim and update Apache sites

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The Apache mirror network has been shut down years ago because we moved to a CDN.
Therefore, use the latest download CDN and fall back to archive if the requested
dist file is not the latest one anymore.

Reference: https://www.apache.org/mirrors

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michaelo requested review of this revision.May 29 2026, 4:34 PM

michaelo created this revision.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B73550: Diff 178921.May 29 2026, 4:34 PM

Ran these two successfully:

grep -r --include=Makefile -E -e 'MASTER_SITES=.+APACHE' . -l | cut -d / -f 2-3 | xargs -I% make -C % makesum
grep -r --include=Makefile -E -e 'APACHE/' . -l | cut -d / -f 2-3 | xargs -I% make -C % makesum

Only www/archiva failed because it has been moved to attic years ago and defunct. Latest release in ports tree is several years old. DL CDN does not host the dist file anymore. This port needs to be deprecated and removed sooner or later.

archive.apache.org was removed because it's simply wrong in the context of mirror(s) and shouldn't be in the list
See https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/Mk/bsd.sites.mk?id=34197c5c60d360ad5af37c3e8aaf4d18176d4f3b

In D57335#1314141, @diizzy wrote:

archive.apache.org was removed because it's simply wrong in the context of mirror(s) and shouldn't be in the list
See https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/Mk/bsd.sites.mk?id=34197c5c60d360ad5af37c3e8aaf4d18176d4f3b

I see and I read D32382 and we have a problem. The CDN only hosts the latest releases, not the archive. As soon as we are past the latest release within a port the dist file will be unfetchable. This happened to me yesterday when I was working on commons-daemon 1.6.0. It also takes upto 24 hours to sync from DL CDN to archive.

What would be your proposal to solve this problem? Aligning MASTER_SITES in ports when they are not uptodate is not a solution. Maybe we should invert? Archive and then DL CDN?

Maintainers need to keep their ports working properly, adding band-aids to work around the issues isn't a proper solution.

In D57335#1314151, @diizzy wrote:

Maintainers need to keep their ports working properly, adding band-aids to work around the issues isn't a proper solution.

I don't think that people will be able to do this in time. You cannot expect that. So maybe we should drop DL CDN completely?

Drop archive

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B73580: Diff 179005.Sat, May 30, 8:08 PM

LGTM

diizzy accepted this revision.Sat, May 30, 8:24 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sat, May 30, 8:24 PM

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