Hi, On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:20:56AM -0800, Dave C via macports-users wrote: > The YouTube-DL github page was taken down per DMCA request.
It has since been restored, likely also due to the public outcry over the overreaching DMCA request referencing a decision by a German court famous for a continued display of lack of technical knowledge. > This brings up 2 questions for me: > 1. Why did this fail? I had a functioning youtube-dl since last MP > update with all the required bits (ffmpg, Python, etc) and I don’t > update component individually; they were last updated with the last MP > update earlier this year. I haven’t updated MacOS for years. So if it > was functioning earlier this year, why did it fail yesterday? youtube-dl talks to remote services that change without notifying the youtube-dl developers. Changes in upstream services may require adaptions in youtube-dl, which you didn't have because you did not have the latest version of youtube-dl. > 2. Next time(?) I update MP I presume YouTube-dl won’t update. Will it > be removed? Will it no longer work? Is there a way to keep the port I > have currently functioning? MacPorts mirrors the upstream files, so even if youtube-dl were removed from GitHub, the port would continue to work. Additionally, the youtube-dl source code was always available from youtube-dl.org, so even if the GitHub repository would not have been restored, we would just have switched the port to use that source instead. -- Clemens