master_sites and opendarwin (was: Re: SDL_Perl installing troubles!)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> I think something in MacPorts must recently have broken w.r.t. the  
> definition of the master sites. Here's another bug report about this:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12486
>
> Hasn't the "opendarwin" master sites alias been removed from  
> MacPorts recently?


	Yes, I removed it. Most of the mirrors are offline now and we  
shouldn't care about the ones that remain online... 'cause that's all  
there is to them, they only "remain". Whatever was in them should be  
moved to the macports mirrors list, and ltmain13 and ltconfig13 are  
already there under Yve's distfile directory.

> If so, then the 160 ports that still use that alias (mostly lots of  
> kde stuff) are now broken since they don't know where to fetch  
> from. How should we handle this?


	As simple as updating the Portfiles as we go along, encouraging  
users to submit patches if they care enough to fix them themselves.  
While on the subject, ltmain13 and ltconfig13 should be moved out of  
Yve's dir and into their own, with ports fetching them through  
macports:ltmain13 & macports:ltconfig13 master_sites entries.

	Regards,...


-jmpp