[27512] distfiles

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Aug 6 04:43:15 PDT 2007


Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> Actually, correct location is where the file was when you first
> committed it ;-) Distfiles are located in user specific dirs for
> distfiles belonging to ports they maintain or, in the case of
> nomaintainer, in the general dir. But you maintain slib so the distfile
> should be in your personal distfile directory.

But MacPorts has this URL as fallback directory for every port.
Therefore it is in the right place as the report about slib on the users
list [1] shows.

| --->  Fetching slib
| --->  Attempting to fetch slib3a3.zip from
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/
| --->  Attempting to fetch slib3a3.zip from
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/OLD/
| --->  Attempting to fetch slib3a3.zip from
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/slib
| --->  Attempting to fetch slib3a3.zip from
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
| --->  Attempting to fetch slib3a3.zip from
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/slib
| Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
| Error: The following dependencies failed to build: slib slib-guile16
| Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Now it will be fetched from there without changing the Portfile.

Rainer

[1]
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-August/004852.html



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