On Wed, 7 Jan 2026, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev wrote:
This is *not* a mirrors problem. All mirrors take their distfiles from distfiles.macports.org/PORTNAME/. The problem is that this primary MacPorts site is NOT getting updated correctly. Look in https://distfiles.macports.org/py-meson/ for example. The new distfile "meson-1.10.0.tar.gz" should be there following yesterday's port update, but that file is MISSING. Same is true for octave-dicom. The mirrors are all doing what they are supposed to do. They can not make up content that was never there in the first place.
The problem with 'lis' *is* a mirror problem, since it shouldn't get "Operation now in progress" from a missing file, and it shouldn't hang for ~25 seconds in the process.
So look for a problem in the MacPorts merge/update process.
Yes, for other mirrors, the problem is presumably:
On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:21 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: Indeed, the error fetching from GitHub on 10.11 is: Fetching distfile failed: SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
Assuming (as suggested above) that the distfile mirror distributor is running on 10.11 and not using MacPorts curl, then all distfile mirroring from GitHub is now broken.
Fred Wright
