[MacPorts] #52528: 10.5 ppc buildbot: multiple SSL/TLS fetch failures, implement work around?

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#52528: 10.5 ppc buildbot:  multiple SSL/TLS fetch failures, implement work around?
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  Reporter:  devans@…         |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:  powerpc buildbot
      Port:  py-cryptography  |
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Comment (by devans@…):

 Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 devans@…]:
 > > Through this week it looked like few, if any, of the distfiles mirrors
 were being updated at all.  However, as of today, it looks like they are
 being updated once again.
 >
 > The script that mirrors all ports' distfiles currently runs twice a
 week. This will be changed to mirror relevant ports' distfiles immediately
 after a commit.
 >
 > > Although the root problem remains, many ports that were failing to
 fetch at all are now fetching through the mirrors.  Doing more detailed
 testing now on a leopard ppc machine that I now have remote access to.
 >
 > I'm not sure any additional testing is required. We know Leopard's
 curl/openssl can't understand modern SSL certificates. We will address the
 problem by mirroring the distfiles to our n
 The testing is for my own purposes so as to understand how things are
 working.  GNOME is publishing their 3.22.1 release this week and I didn't
 want to bog the buildbot down by making a lot of commits that will just
 fail on fetch. That's pretty much everything right now since gtk3 won't
 build on ppc right now. Thanks for the update. I'll try and moderate my
 commits until I hear that your mirror-on-commit fix is working. I know
 there's a lot to do behind the scenes these days.  Let me know if there's
 something that I can do to help.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52528#comment:5>
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