[84270] trunk/dports/devel/byacc/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

Let's keep the discussion on the mailing list.


On Sep 21, 2011, at 15:09, Toby Peterson wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 13:17, toby at macports.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Revision: 84270
>>>        http://trac.macports.org/changeset/84270
>>> Author:   toby at macports.org
>>> Date:     2011-09-21 11:17:27 -0700 (Wed, 21 Sep 2011)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> how did this get here?

>> That's not a very good commit message.
> 
> You'll get over it.

Please use commit messages that describe what was done and why.


>> "svn blame" can answer the question for you. You'll see that Joshua added it in r81622, because otherwise the port had no http source, and our distfile mirror servers can only fetch from http sources.
> 
> I know how to use subversion, I just didn't feel like digging into it at the time. That mirror doesn't have a recent version, and as far as I know the only "real" http mirror for byacc does not have versioned tarballs; those are only on the FTP server.

Yeah... That mirror had the version that the port was at at the time, but not the latest version. Without an http mirror, the buildbot cannot build the port either:

http://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-snowleopard-x86_64/builds/1027

I found that fink has the latest distfile, so I added that to the master_sites:

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/84286

Now the buildbot succeeds:

http://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-snowleopard-x86_64/builds/1042


> Sounds like the distfile mirrors should be fixed.

My understanding is that this is a security precaution at Apple's datacenter where the distfiles mirror lives; their (i.e. your) IT staff will not change this.