webpublish ftp location is now wrong

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 19/07/2007, at 6:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2007, at 03:25, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> I'm having a whale of time following an upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4.
>>
>> I used webpublish, a simple command line tool that transferred  
>> files to another computer. It's still listed in MacPorts but the  
>> location has changed. It was at  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/webpublish  
>> but it is now at  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/webpublish.
>>
>> Can I change the locations that will be searched, ie, change gnu  
>> to old-gnu.
>
> You can edit a portfile by using "port edit webpublish", assuming  
> your EDITOR environment variable is set up properly.
>
>
> The webpublish port needed to be updated, which I did:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/27097
>
> Wait 12 hours, then "sudo port sync", then you should be able to  
> install webpublish 0.1.1_0.
>
>
> The port used "master_sites gnu" but GNU moved the software out of  
> the "gnu" directory and into the "old-gnu" directory. We do not  
> appear to have a "master_sides old-gnu" option. Should we? For now,  
> I'm hardcoding the URL of the main GNU server, since such "old"  
> software will hopefully not be in great demand.


That was the trick. I could see "master_sites gnu" but couldn't see  
how to get from that to the correct ftp address.


thanks for doing that for me

malcolm