MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 23, 2008, at 10:09, William Siegrist wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> Before fetching all the files, it would probably nice to fix the
>> timestamps so that they correctly reflect the upstream distfile ?
>>
>> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12629
>>
>> The --remote-time feature is added, but disabled due to the
>> old and buggy version of libcurl that is present in Tiger...
>
> The servers are running Tiger, but have curl installed via MP, so  
> this shouldnt be a problem unless /usr/bin is hardcoded for this?  
> Or am I missing the issue?

/usr/bin is not hardcoded for this, but the feature is disabled  
because it will cause fetches to fail from FTP sites if running on  
Tiger and if MacPorts curl is not installed.