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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