Problems trying to pull sources from git

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Nov 20 14:43:13 PST 2011


On Nov 19, 2011, at 19:22, William Siegrist wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> My understanding was that the buildbot (and the distfiles server) are on a restricted network and therefore can only fetch from http and https protocols. That's why we've had to add http master_sites to many ports that only had ftp master_sites, and switch many git fetches to http/https URLs. Maybe the network's restrictions were relaxed recently.
> 
> Oh, yeah, we opened up git fetching a couple weeks ago. Sorry for the surprise, its been busy around here so I forgot to announce it. 

Pleasant surprises are always welcome. :) Are there any other changes that have been made, or that we should look forward to? ftp or svn fetching?



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