apple-gcc42 @5666.3_15 +gpl3: patch file is missing on all servers

[internetzel]

gcc-4.2.1-4.2.4-v2.patch is not available anymore on the servers. It is however still available here on the trac server: ​https://trac.macports.org/export/154482/distfiles/apple-gcc42/gcc-4.2.1-4.2.4-v2.patch

Would it be possible to distribute it to the mirros again?

[devernay (Frédéric Devernay)]

Just came accross this one. Shouldn't this be an easy fix?

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

Ryan, any idea why this might've happened?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The problem is that this port had its gcc-4.2.1-4.2.4-v2.patch patchfile stored in the distfiles directory of the Subversion repository (r136975). MacPorts base used to automatically look for distfiles and patchfiles there.

We had long thought it a bad idea to store distfiles in the repository, so when we migrated to GitHub last year, we decided not to migrate those distfiles, and we removed the MacPorts base feature that automatically looked for files there.

But since we are keeping the Subversion repository online indefinitely in read-only mode, it's fine for this port to re-add that location to its patch_sites. I'll do that, and I'll copy the file to our mirrors.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 134961f1fe556676e69b44265af0b03bf201bdb7/macports-ports:

apple-gcc42: Fix fetch failure of +gpl3 variant

Closes: #54234