Thank you! I was looking in the wrong place for the location where my port fetch write to :-(
Now I got what I needed. Thanks, Ken On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 2:15 PM Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > newapple:~ root# port fetch file > ---> Fetching distfiles for file > ---> Attempting to fetch file-5.44.tar.gz from > http://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/distfiles/ > newapple:~ root# find /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles -name file-5.44.tar.gz > /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/file/file-5.44.tar.gz > newapple:~ root# ls /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/file > file-5.41.tar.gz file-5.44.tar.gz > > Note that I had an older one left in there too; port clean doesn't get rid of > that unless you use the --dist or --all flag. > > To get an older version, you may have to go to github to get the older > version of the Portfile, look at that, and see where it fetches from. For > "file", the relevant Portfile (and patch files, which may exist for some > ports) are in > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/sysutils/file > > (don't ask me how to get a particular historical version of a file from > github, I don't use it that much) > > On Jul 1, 2023, at 16:51, Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi; > > Another very basic question that I missed the answer to in my search: > > How to just download the source of a port? > > I already have installed the port in question, I'd just like to > examine the source. > > All the "easy" ways to obtain the source code seem to be temporarily > blocked by circumstances (original web site down, etc). > > The specific port I'm interested in is "file". > > Thanks, > Ken Wolcott > >
