On May 19, 2008, at 14:35, William Siegrist wrote: > I've begun experimenting with hosting a distfile mirror on Mac OS > Forge for MacPorts. This is very much a beta service, so it wont be > automatically used by MacPorts just yet. But if you have trouble > fetching a distfile, the checksums fail repeatedly, or you need an > old distfile, you might try looking here: > > http://distfiles.macports.org/<portname>/
I hope it's not actually <portname> but <dist_subdir> as defined in the port. For most ports, <dist_subdir> will equal <portname> but some ports may override it. > Disclaimer: this service is experimental, it may not be available > all of the time, it may not contain all distfiles, I will probably > rearrange the files later, it may not always be up to date with the > portfiles in the svn repo, etc etc. > > Also, there may be some ports out there that forbid mirroring of > their distfiles. If you know of such a port, you can email me > directly with the port name so it can be excluded from mirroring. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
