Ports depending on zlib cannot be installed

[JLM939@…]

Installation of any port that requires zlib will currently fail, for the following reasons:

1. The primary source for the zlib archive, www.zlib.net, is not currently responding, and...

2. The alternate sites (distfiles-od.opendarwin.org, distfiles-msn.opendarwin.org, and distfiles-bay13.opendarwin.org) do not have the current 1.2.3 version of zlib.

Suggested solution: Make sure the current version of zlib is added to all alternate server sources.

Thanks for addressing this as quickly as possible! :)

[blb@…]

www.zlib.net is working for me, is it okay for you now as well?

[JLM939@…]

(In reply to comment #1)

www.zlib.net is working for me, is it okay for you now as well?

Yes, the site is back up, but the alternate source servers mentioned in the bug report do not mirror the latest version (1.2.3) of zlib. So if zlib.net goes offline again (the last outage was well over 12 hours), hundreds of DarwinPorts that depend on zlib can no longer be installed or upgraded. Making sure the alternate source servers are mirroring the latest version would certainly ameliorate this risk. How do we go about doing that?

BTW, the zlib problem was discovered while writing the following article, which was published this morning:

​http://www.servercodex.com/archives/2006/02/06/installing-darwinports-tiger/

[olegb@…]

added more mirrors.

<rant>its not a darwinports bug that the zlib site isnt up<\rant>

[JLM939@…]

Thanks for adding more mirrors.

<rant>its not a darwinports bug that the zlib site isnt up<\rant>

I disagree. Since zlib is a required dependency for a vast number of ports, the DarwinPorts system was effectively rendered useless if zlib.net went offline. Is that really the best we can do? I don't think DP should be so fragile and vulnerable that it can be taken down by a dependency site outage. Do you?