While in principle most updates that fetch source might still work, I've seen few if any since the outage began, and I'm curious about that. Haven't seen a fetch failure, just no updates showing up.
> On Feb 19, 2021, at 15:26, Bill Cole > <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire >
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