On Oct 1, 2007, at 19:35, mike clemow wrote:
I'm new to macports from Debian. I'm trying to install oregano, and all the dependencies have downloaded and installed, but when port gets the oregano source, this happens: ------------ ---> Fetching oregano ---> oregano-0.3.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/oregano ---> Attempting to fetch oregano-0.3.2.tar.bz2 from http://opendarwin.org/~olegb/ ---> Attempting to fetch oregano-0.3.2.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/oregano % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 ---> Attempting to fetch oregano-0.3.2.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 ---> Attempting to fetch oregano-0.3.2.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/oregano
- Ignored: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Warning: the following items did not execute (for oregano): org.macports.activate org.macports.fetch org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. -------------
What exactly does this mean? Does this mean that the file just isn't there? Or should I be asking this on another list?
This is the right list. I see the oregano port still tries to fetch from opendarwin. opendarwin died quite awhile ago. Also it looks like the port hasn't been substantially updated since being initially added on 2004-11-16. The port is for oregano 0.3.2 but the current version is 0.69.0. It looks like maybe the reason the distfile was stored on opendarwin is that the project does not release source tarballs; currently they tell you to pull the source via darcs. Someone who knows about this software should fetch the 0.69.0 source, put the tarball up in the macports repository, and update the port to 0.69.0. Probably best to just totally rewrite the portfile.