On Feb 22, 2008, at 13:23, Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Well, the files were never there. MacPorts just looks in the >> repository as a backup for all ports, but most ports do not have >> copies of their distfiles in the MacPorts repository, because >> there's >> usually no need to have them there, and the MacPorts project is not >> in the business of providing a general distfile mirror. > > The macports repository is the only place macports is looking for it, > so it must have been there at some point or the port would never have > passed even the most rudimentary QA.
No, the first place it's looking for it is the ntfs-3g web site, which is where it should be, only they apparently removed it because it was an old version: >> On Feb 21, 2008, at 20:40, Ludwig wrote: >> >>> $ sudo port -v install ntfs-3g >>> ---> Fetching ntfs-3g >>> ---> ntfs-3g-1.1120.tgz doesn't seem to exist in >>> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ntfs-3g >>> ---> Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.1120.tgz from http:// >>> www.ntfs-3g.org/ >>> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time >>> Time Current >>> Dload Upload Total Spent >>> Left Speed >>> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- >>> --:--:-- 0 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
