SSHKeychain site is dead
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Oct 21 00:55:54 PDT 2011
On Oct 21, 2011, at 02:33, Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 22:03, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> Looks like this package can be retired given that http://www.sshkeychain.org/ is just a bunch of links.
I reported this to their mailing list in February; there was no reply.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=69476D07-1AB4-4CA9-8D1F-54E024539EFC%40users.sourceforge.net&forum_name=sshkeychain-users
>> Even the URL to download the source is bad:
>> http://svn.sshkeychain.org/repos/tags/0.8.2
>
> Don't we host it a tarball on macports repository in such a case?
Of course we do. http://distfiles.macports.org/ . Unfortunately sshkeychain does not fetch a tarball; it fetches directly from the project's subversion repository which is inaccessible along with the rest of their web site.
> I
> remember this happening to a port, I fetched a tarball from some
> mirror on web.
>
> IMHO the point is if the port is still useful or not.
I use the port so of course I don't want it deleted.
The project still exists at SourceForge. I will fix the port to update its homepage and to fetch from there.
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