macports or meld issue?

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-5-6 10:37 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 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.

There's supposed to also be a post-commit hook that immediately mirrors
the ports touched by the commit, but that seems to have not worked for
some time. Bill mentioned this in a message I thought went to portmgr,
but looking again it was only sent to me and Shree.

- Josh