Mirroring distfiles (was Re: mkvtoolnix dependency failure)

[Paul Guyot]

> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:22:39 -0500
> From: Altoine Barker <ndiscreet at gmail.com>
> Subject: mkvtoolnix dependency failure
> To: MacPorts Users <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>
> Message-ID: <48FF291F.2070001 at GmAiL.cOm>

[...]

> I have tried to manually download libebml and libmatroska and I fail
> because the following links do not work:
>
> <snip>
> http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/
> http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/
> </snip>

The unique master site is down, but fortunately I had the tarballs on  
my disk and I've manually copied the files where port(1) looks for  
them by default.

Still, this raises the question of the automatic mirroring of dist  
files, a problem that apparently never got solved.

Paul