On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
The ports usually fetch the software from the developers' web
sites. We don't control them, so it's possible that they'll be down
from time to time. But it shouldn't be a problem that often. You
can also always fetch the software yourself, if you can find it
elsewhere, and put it in the right place (which is /opt/local/var/
macports/distfiles/${name}). For sites that are frequently down, we
sometimes mirror the distfiles on our own server. You could show us
the exact error messages you're getting so we can look into it and
see what's going on.
Now that I look closer, I see the first URL that's failing is www.apache.org
. In fact, their site is not down, and when I go there, it's easy
to see what's wrong. They have apr 0.9.16 available, but the one
attempting to download is 0.9.13. So simply the package that "port"
is trying to download is too old.
I browsed around, and 0.9.13 is no longer available. So I can't
download it myself into the distfiles directory.
I tried "tricking" port by grepping for 0.9.13 under /opt, and
editing a few select files to 0.9.16 instead. This allowed the file
to download, but the checksum failed.
Any suggestions on how to handle this situation?
Thanks again.
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