misc/mc whats is problem? main site is down and sources are lost?

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litos

Hello,

Anybody knows about this issue? The main site at http://www.midnight-commander.org is down. The port is marked as broken. I've tried to install the port but no mirrors have files with an MC archive.

What's happened? I've browsed these mirrors and only an old mc-4.6.1.tar.gz was found. This version is very very old and outdated.

Code: 
=> mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: Operation timed out
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/mirrors/metalab.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/mirrors/metalab.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/pub4/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/pub4/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/metalab.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/metalab.unc.edu/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/sunsite/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: No route to host
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz
fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/misc/mc.
*** Error code 1
 
Lucky you. I still have it in my /usr/ports/distfiles :e

I've put it up on http://sirdice.nl/mc-4.8.1.7.tar.xz. Just download it and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles. And remove the BROKEN line from the Makefile, it should build fine after that.
 
Thanks, I know how to fix this, but I think the port misc/mc should be fixed a.s.a.p. because it uses incorrect mirrors without a distribution tarball file.
 
litos said:
Thanks, I know how to fix this, but I think the port misc/mc should be fixed a.s.a.p. because it uses incorrect mirrors without a distribution tarball file.
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That's probably why it's now marked as BROKEN. If the upstream site isn't even available anymore what could the port maintainer do?
 
I've asked about this with port maintainer and he switch port to local-distfiles because main site is down for more than two weeks
 
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