On 11 Oct, 2007, at 10:27, script this wrote:

I'm trying to port fvwm2 and so far there have been 3 packages that for whatever reason wouldn't download from the sites in master_sites list in the Portfiles. I've downloaded the packages myself, put them on my own server, added my site to each Portfile's master_site list, then rerun port fvwm2. Is there a "global" master_sites setting somewhere that I can add my url to? So I don't have to edit each Portfile? It looks like they all have this line in the master_sites list:

macports:lt:lt

what does it mean? can i use it for my purposes somehow?

Roughly, the syntax of a master_sites declaration is "location:tag", with the tag being optional. Obviously, valid locations include e.g. http://example.org/ or ftp://example.org/. macports also supports locations such as, in this case, macports:lt. That is rewritten to http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/ distfiles/lt/ The purpose of the tag is to identify the locations of multiple distfiles. In any of the ports you see macports:lt:lt in, you would see the e.g. "ltmain13:lt" meaning that the file "ltmain13" should be downloaded from the master_site with the tag "lt". To more directly address your concern, the file /opt/local/share/ macports/resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl lists mirror sites for `macports`. I believe if you add your site there, it will be used as part of the standard fallback procedure. Changes will be overwritten on selfupdate, since you're really not supposed to be changing that file ;) If your goal is to produce a working fvwm2 port, the files should really be fetchable, though. If you've found them online, the best thing would be to point the master_sites there, or at worst to upload them to the standard macports distfiles dir for the benefit of everyone else. Chris