On 19 Feb 2021, at 15:12, Todd Doucet wrote:
Many new users, like me, might not know what the consequences of the
build servers being down are, exactly. I am speculating that this
does not mean that MacPorts is not available generally, but instead
that if I ask for a port it might build it on my machine instead of
pulling a pre-built binary for me.
Correct. In some cases there could also be problems with getting source
distributions of some ports automatically.
From Ryan's initial message:
Binary archives of newly updated ports will not be produced during
this time so MacPorts will compile from source on your computer when
needed. Source distfiles will not be mirrored during this time either
which may impact your ability to install some ports on older OS
versions, particularly OS X 10.8 and earlier. If you get an error
during the fetch phase, consult:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#fetch-failures
That link explains that if you can find and manually fetch the right
distfile, you can work around a 'port fetch' failure.
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