On Dec 16, 2021, at 4:24 PM, Jason Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on a new portfile that has its source stored on sourceforge. > MacPorts is having trouble obtaining the tarball, because apparently the > mirrors are pointing to the wrong file, and if I put the full URL into > `master_sites`, it's unable to find the tarball at all. It seems that > sourceforge is using 301 redirects to point to the actual file. If I use the > URL with a `curl -L`, the correct file downloads just fine. Is there any way > to get MacPorts to follow redirects during the fetch phase? If at all > possible, I'd like to avoid manually using curl through a `system` call, but > I suppose it could work as a last resort.
Does this sourceforge example help? https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/AvoidRedirects -- Daniel J. Luke
