xmlto won't download

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Dec 9 07:27:12 PST 2007


On Dec 9, 2007, at 07:37, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2007 2:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Dec 8, 2007, at 21:22, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to install GnuCash all day on an iMac and keep
>>> getting errors about xmlto not being fetchable. I tried installing
>>> just xmlto and got the same error. Is this a known problem?
>>
>> I don't see an issue filed in the issue tracker. But it looks like
>> the xmlto web site is offline at this time. If you can find the
>> distfile (xmlto-0.0.18.tar.bz2) elsewhere (try a Google search) you
>> can manually download it and put it in /opt/local/var/macports/
>> distfiles/xmlto and try again. Hopefully the xmlto web site will be
>> up again soon.
>
> For those who have the same problem, I found a compatible mirror of
> the xmlto archive at:
>
> ftp://ftp6.ua.freebsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/xmlto-0.0.18.tar.bz2
>
> I did as Ryan said and it worked fine.

Thanks for finding that mirror, Todd. I added that as a backup  
download location in the portfile (in r31831). Should show up if you  
"sudo port selfupdate" in 30 minutes.




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