https fetch error on older (<10.9) OSX releases due to rejected protocol

[Chris Jones]

> On 18 Oct 2017, at 9:48 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 18, 2017, at 15:40, Christopher Jones wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> OK, thanks. 
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>> Thing is fixing this isn’t something I am thinking of for myself. I would never use such an old OS (I have some VMs I use only for testing stuff like this). I was just hoping there was a way to fix it that would allow the tar balls to be produced by the buildbots. I guess not, short of install macports there as per the link below, or fixing the low broken dist file mirroring…
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> These aren't tarballs we produce. They are tarballs the developers produce.

Of course, I know that. Having the buildbots though able to download the source tarballs is a requirement for being able to make the macports binary tarballs, what are the tarballs i was referring to.

> We should mirror them, but per the ticket, we don't. I intend to work on this and other server issues soon. There is an order of operations I should follow, and enabling mirroring is not the first step.
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Thanks for the info.

Chris

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