alternative download site

[Lucas Vickers]

Looks like I was hitting darwinports not macporta. Thanks!

On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2010-7-17 02:12 , Lucas Vickers wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> the download link on the macports website points to
>> http://www.portcode.com/darwinports/DarwinPorts-1.7.0-10.5- 
>> Leopard.dmg
>
> No it doesn't. The MacPorts web site is at <http://www.macports.org/>,
> and the download page <http://www.macports.org/install.php> links to
> <http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-1.9.1-10.5-Leopard.dmg 
> >
> (assuming you want the dmg for 10.5).
>
>> however portcode.com has been down for at least 12 hours now.
>>
>> are there any trustworthy alternative sites?
>
> If you want to be sure you are getting an official MacPorts release,  
> you
> should only ever download from the site I gave above.
>
> - Josh