macports or meld issue?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 5, 2014, at 19:36, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2014-5-6 09:31 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> Also, for a time after the network changes, distfiles.macports.org was not mirroring anything. And since the other mirrors mirror from distfiles.macports.org, that meant they didn’t have new versions of distfiles either. 
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43172
>> 
>> That problem has since been fixed, but distfiles that were not mirrored during that time won’t get retried unless someone commits a change to that port (or a port that depends on it).
> 
> Not true, the mirror script runs nightly. (And there's nothing that
> would cause a port's dependencies to be mirrored immediately when the
> port itself is updated.)

Ah, thanks, I did not know this. But I had been wondering why distfiles weren’t mirrored immediately; now I know.