mplayer-devel: reference is not a tree: 81c3ce0855f144c89800b824db3e4e0dcdad9016

[worldleather]

mplayer-devel not installing on my system. always did before, but since a few weeks I can't get it installed. after clean updating macOS to mojave, also no dice. it stops with 'Error: Failed to fetch mplayer-devel: command execution failed'

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log says:

:error:main It seems you have not accepted the Xcode license; most ports will fail to build.
:error:main Agree to the license by opening Xcode or running `sudo xcodebuild -license'.

This is unrelated to your problem, but if you haven't done this already, you should do so.

The log also says:

Checking out files:  98% (6785/6923)   
Checking out files:  99% (6854/6923)   
Checking out files: 100% (6923/6923)   
Checking out files: 100% (6923/6923), done.
:debug:fetch system: cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_mplayer-devel/mplayer-devel/work/trunk/ffmpeg && git checkout -f 81c3ce0855f144c89800b824db3e4e0dcdad9016
:info:fetch fatal: reference is not a tree: 81c3ce0855f144c89800b824db3e4e0dcdad9016
:info:fetch Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_mplayer-devel/mplayer-devel/work/trunk/ffmpeg && git checkout -f 81c3ce0855f144c89800b824db3e4e0dcdad9016

So I guess the specific commit of ffmpeg that we were checking out no longer exists. We should update the port to use a newer commit for ffmpeg at least.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The depth of the checkout is limited:

    # 10000 should be deep enough to find out checkout within a year
    system "git clone -b ${ffmpeg_branch} --depth 10000 git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git ${worksrcpath}/ffmpeg"

I assume the desired commit is now old enough to be beyond that depth.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

In efe5b8f63142b5b97aed0c4ef31a711a51fdb005/macports-ports (master):

mplayer-devel: increase depth of git clone command

Fixes #57390