Fetch failing for ntfs-3g port

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:48 PM, William Damon wrote:

> Hi,
>
...
> [Users/wedamon] > install ntfs-3g
> --->  Fetching ntfs-3g
> --->  Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.2412.tgz from http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.2412.tgz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/ntfs-3g
> --->  Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.2412.tgz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.2412.tgz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/ntfs-3g
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>

Looks like that version is no longer available in the usual places,  
and the port needs to be updated [1].  Until that happens, you can  
install this version by telling port to grab the file from the  
MacPorts mirror [2] by running:

sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/ntfs-3g port - 
v fetch ntfs-3g

After that you should be able to install as usual.

Bryan

[1] - <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15510>
[2] - <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures>



> What's the trick to getting this package downloaded/installed?
>
> Many thanks,
> -wd