So I'm running MacPorts from trunk and I see that a gnu livecheck option was added. But the livecheck on two of my ports seems to have broken as a result. First libiconv: $ sudo port -dv livecheck libiconv DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/textproc/ libiconv DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ textproc/libiconv DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Executing variant darwin_8 provides darwin_8 DEBUG: Skipping completed org.macports.main (libiconv) DEBUG: Executing org.macports.livecheck (libiconv) DEBUG: Portfile modification date is Tue Sep 11 19:22:28 CDT 2007 DEBUG: Port (livecheck) version is 1.11 DEBUG: Fetching http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/:gnu/?C=M&O=D Error: cannot check if libiconv was updated (HTTP response code said error) libiconv seems to be up to date $ "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/:gnu/?C=M&O=D" is clearly wrong. libiconv downloads from gnu, but it's specified this way: homepage http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ master_sites \ gnu::gnu \ http://www2d.biglobe.ne.jp/~msyk/software/libiconv/:cp932fix If I change the download location to: master_sites \ gnu:${name}:gnu \ http://www2d.biglobe.ne.jp/~msyk/software/libiconv/:cp932fix Then the livecheck says: $ sudo port -dv livecheck DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ textproc/libiconv DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Executing variant darwin_8 provides darwin_8 DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ textproc/libiconv DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port libiconv. DEBUG: Executing variant darwin_8 provides darwin_8 Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state. DEBUG: Executing org.macports.main (libiconv) DEBUG: Executing org.macports.livecheck (libiconv) DEBUG: Portfile modification date is Tue Oct 16 12:49:56 CDT 2007 DEBUG: Port (livecheck) version is 1.11 DEBUG: Fetching http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv:gnu/?C=M&O=D Error: cannot check if libiconv was updated (HTTP response code said error) libiconv seems to be up to date $ As you can see, it still hasn't got the right project name. I fixed it by adding "livecheck.name ${name}" but that should have been the default, shouldn't it? Next problem is freetype: $ sudo port -dv livecheck freetype DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/print/ freetype DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/ print/freetype DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port freetype. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port freetype. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port freetype. DEBUG: Skipping completed org.macports.main (freetype) DEBUG: Executing org.macports.livecheck (freetype) DEBUG: Portfile modification date is Thu Jul 05 16:55:44 CDT 2007 DEBUG: Port (livecheck) version is 2.3.5 DEBUG: Fetching http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freetype/?C=M&O=D Error: cannot check if freetype was updated (HTTP response code said error) freetype seems to be up to date $ Here's what the portfile says: homepage http://freetype.sourceforge.net/ master_sites \ http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/ \ sourceforge Freetype never used to check the GNU web site for its livecheck info. Why did it start doing so? Just because the first master site contains "gnu"? I fixed it by adding "livecheck.check sourceforge" but I wonder how many other ports are affected by this.