[MacPorts] #44199: gnutls 3.3.5 org.macports.fetch for port gnutls returned: fetch failed

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#44199: gnutls 3.3.5 org.macports.fetch for port gnutls returned: fetch failed
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  Reporter:  phoglund@…  |      Owner:  mschamschula@…
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.3.1
Resolution:  fixed       |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  gnutls      |
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

 * keywords:   => haspatch
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed
 * cc: ryandesign@… (added)


Comment:

 Everyone: please use WikiFormatting and TracLinks when writing in Trac so
 that your posts are legible and so that we don't have to edit your
 formatting later.

 mschamschula: there is no reason to increase the port's revision when just
 changing the list of master sites. And remember to add the "haspatch"
 keyword when you attach a patch.

 phoglund: yes, you can fetch distfiles manually and place them where
 MacPorts expect them. The process is documented in ProblemHotlist#fetch-
 failures. Yes, you can install an older version of a port, documented in
 wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort. You shouldn't do this, however, because
 other ports have already been built against the new version of gnutls; you
 might get library version mismatches if you get some of those dependencies
 via a binary package from our server. Binaries of the current version are
 not available—not because of an infrastructure problem, but because of a
 license conflict:

 {{{
 "gnutls" is not distributable because its license "gpl" conflicts with
 license "OpenSSL" of dependency "openssl"
 }}}

 cal: old versions of gnutls are on the gnu mirrors, but current versions
 are only hosted at the gnutls ftp server.

 MacPorts' distfiles mirror servers ''should'' mirror files, but sometimes
 this fails. In particular, Apple's network (which is where Mac OS Forge
 lives and where MacPorts' servers are hosted) has restrictions on
 accessing FTP servers over their normal ports. To circumvent this, the
 MacPorts servers are configured to use a proxy server run by another
 MacPorts committer on a different network, but during Mac OS Forge's
 recent network reconfiguration this connection was interrupted for a time.
 Separately, shortly after that, the proxy server was down for awhile.
 Probably gnutls was updated to 3.3.5 during one of these outages so the
 file did not get mirrored.

 I've committed mschamschula's patch (minus the revision increase) in
 r122069. This does not appear to have caused the servers to re-attempt
 mirroring, perhaps because the ports had already been successfully built.
 However this might let you fetch it now, and hopefully the files will get
 mirrored eventually, the next time the gnutls port has its revision or
 version increased; I may have a change I need to commit to it shortly
 which would cause this.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44199#comment:17>
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