Re: git: 5e05ddcf5f09 - main - audio/alsa-lib: Switch master site to GitHub.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 05:57:07PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@freebsd.org> writes:
> > What do you mean with "hard to come by"?  They seem to fetch just
> > fine.  Releases are also available via https if ftp is a problem:
> > https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/lib/
> 
> Missing from distcache and multiple mirrors are down or don't have the
> files.  GH is more reliable.  I also intend to update them, but this is
> all I had time for right now as alsa-lib requires non-trivial patches.
> 
> => alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /portdistfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Operation timed out
> => Attempting to fetch http://mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch https://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: https://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch http://gentoo.inode.at/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://gentoo.inode.at/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Forbidden
> => Attempting to fetch http://gentoo.gg3.net/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://gentoo.gg3.net/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: No address record
> => Attempting to fetch http://mirrors.163.com/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://mirrors.163.com/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Operation timed out
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Permission denied
> => Attempting to fetch ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not logged in
> => Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2
> fetch: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/alsa-lib-1.2.2.tar.bz2: Not Found
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /portdistfiles/ and try again.

All this kinda means the GENTOO macro is broken, and/or alsa is no
longer distributed/cached with it.  Having a look at
https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Download, they say their primary sites
are ftp and https, maybe using https would be better than FTP.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold