ocaml-ctypes-0.3.4_1.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2 does not exist

[zhulcher]

trying to upgrade macports root (CERN) with sudo port upgrade outdated, which has ocaml-ctypes as a dependency. The logfile is saying it is looking for ocaml-ctypes-0.3.4_1.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2 on ​https://packages.macports.org/ocaml-ctypes and ​http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/ocaml-ctypes among other places and that it cannot find them. A cursory look on these pages says that this file does not exist there.

[kencu (Ken)]

MacPorts may not find a prebuilt binary for several reasons.

• buildbot hasn't got to that port yet
• port can't be distributed in binary form
• port can't be built

MacPorts should try to build it from source on your system if it can't find a prebuilt binary. Are you not seeing that happen? You can turn off port building in macports.conf, but most people would never have done that.

Please give us some more information to work with.

[zhulcher]

Replying to mf2k: it does indeed seem to not be able to find it in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified. Ill hunt it down more then.

[kencu (Ken)]

Replying to zhulcher:

Replying to mf2k: it does indeed seem to not be able to find it in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified. Ill hunt it down more then.

If it's not available on any package server it'll never be downloaded to ../incoming/verified.

Do you have any idea why your installation of MacPorts is not trying to build it? Might you have modified macports.conf to disable port building, ie do you have the following line in your macports.conf?

buildfromsource     	always

if so, it should say

buildfromsource     	ifneeded

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The file doesn't exist because the port can't be built. See #55640.