libffi: pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz fetch failing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 13, 2008, at 15:56, LeAnne Lis wrote:

> I'm trying to install libffi, which apparently needs a  
> 'pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz'
> file to install.  It's failing on the fetch as follows.  Should I  
> put a
> ticket in?
>
> sudo port install libffi
> --->  Fetching libffi
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/software/
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pyobjc
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/pyobjc
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/pyobjc
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/pyobjc
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/pyobjc
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/libffi
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
> --->  Attempting to fetch pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/libffi
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Based on the transcript in ticket #13287, pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz used to  
exist at http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/software/ but nothing except a  
verbose error message exists there now. So yes, you should file a  
ticket and assign the ticket to the maintainer of libffi. Perhaps he  
can fix the py-pyobjc file while he's at it, if indeed the files need  
fixing (if the download location has changed). Or maybe the pyobjc  
web site administrators just need to be prodded into fixing their site.