ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Feb 22 11:35:00 PST 2008
On Feb 22, 2008, at 13:23, Ludwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Well, the files were never there. MacPorts just looks in the
>> repository as a backup for all ports, but most ports do not have
>> copies of their distfiles in the MacPorts repository, because
>> there's
>> usually no need to have them there, and the MacPorts project is not
>> in the business of providing a general distfile mirror.
>
> The macports repository is the only place macports is looking for it,
> so it must have been there at some point or the port would never have
> passed even the most rudimentary QA.
No, the first place it's looking for it is the ntfs-3g web site,
which is where it should be, only they apparently removed it because
it was an old version:
>> On Feb 21, 2008, at 20:40, Ludwig wrote:
>>
>>> $ sudo port -v install ntfs-3g
>>> ---> Fetching ntfs-3g
>>> ---> ntfs-3g-1.1120.tgz doesn't seem to exist in
>>> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ntfs-3g
>>> ---> Attempting to fetch ntfs-3g-1.1120.tgz from http://
>>> www.ntfs-3g.org/
>>> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time
>>> Time Current
>>> Dload Upload Total Spent
>>> Left Speed
>>> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
>>> --:--:-- 0
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