What is up with perl5.26 on Snow Leo?

[Uli Wienands]

Well, I am familiar with the fall-back of fetching the distfiles.

In my case, it did NOT fetch the distfiles. Went straight to "staging... 
to destroot".

Anyway, this problem seems fixed, Thanks  much, Josh and all.

Uli

On 12/1/21 12:09 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Nov 29, 2021, at 20:21, Uli Wienands wrote:
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>> Well, I wonder whether someone did something within the last day or two. I just tried it again, and lo-and-behold, perl5.26 installed just fine & now MacPorts is getting to work on the backlog of things that I could not update because of this problem.
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>> This after I just found out (in debug mode) that the perl5.26 port actually was not able to get its files; the fetch errored out with a 404 error for all attempts. What is odd is that it proceeded to do a bunch of things after that & even went to the destroot phase. I would love to send the log, but the renewed attempt was to generate the log so I could pack it up & send it, only for now the install succeeded making this moot.
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>> So, my thanks go out to whomever fixed this.
> Yes thanks very much to Josh who fixed it here:
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> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/26dcf67f5b33a443b278a9e5382f1a18dea32d32
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> There had also been a ticket about it:
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63248
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> No need for a log since the problem is solved.
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> What you presumably mean is that MacPorts encountered a 404 error trying to download a precompiled archive, and therefore it fetched the source (or MacPorts had already fetched the source for you before) and built it from source on your system. This isn't odd; it's how MacPorts is designed to work. A precompiled archive may simply not have been produced yet at the time you tried to install it. The archive has been produced now (you can see at http://packages.macports.org/perl5.26/ that they were built for darwin 10 on 11/28 at 10 am (x86_64) and 7 pm (i386) UTC), so if you were to try to install it now, you should receive that archive instead of needing to build from source.
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