Screwy Fetch Behavior

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> Fred Wright wrote:
>> and how do I get around it?
>
> do you have the
>    /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ntpsec
> directory ?

Of course.  And that's created as needed, anyway.

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Ken Cunningham wrote:

>> I noticed that MacPorts was sometimes trying to fetch patch
>> files from distfile mirrors.
>> What's causing this and
>> how do I get around it?
>
> That happens if the patchfile being referenced in the Portfile does not 
> exist in the files directory.

Yeah, I actually figured out the problem shortly after I posted that, but 
as I was driving somewhere.  That's what I get for rushing. :-)

It's my fault that it wasn't seeing the patchfile, though it's unclear to 
me why it would ever be useful to try to fetch it from the distfile 
mirrors.

Fred Wright