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> 1. As I did not change anything on my system, why did all the files download correctly this time but not the last time?<br>
<br>
Most likely the files were successfully fetched via one of the<br>
macports mirror this time, while last time you tried:<br>
- the file was not mirrored yet (at the location from where you tried<br>
to fetch it)<br>
- fetching from the original site failed because of SSL issues (you<br>
would need to install two instances of macports; an auxiliary one at<br>
some non-standard prefix; and the real one at the default prefix, and<br>
configure that one to use curl from the auxiliary installation).<br>
<br>
I didn't check the evidence, but I strongly believe that was the case.<br>
So nothing unusual.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just trying to understand it better, does it mean when I attempted to access those file, their mirroring had been initiated but it took many hours before the completion? Is it documented somewhere?</div><div><br></div><div>I have built another copy of macports from source in /opt/macports-test, is there any way I can test it against some SSL limiting site?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
It could be that switching to the latest compiler would help. You can<br>
try building with<br>
sudo port -v build rust configure.compiler=macports-<wbr>clang-7.0<br>
or something like that (I'm not 100% sure if the command is exactly<br>
right as I'm not behind my mac right now).<br>
<br>
But that won't give you any guarantee that the build would succeed.<br>
You might need to ask upstream for help (if they will bother<br>
supporting old systems, that is) or try to investigate yourself. There<br>
is a small number of developers still having access and bothering<br>
about older OSes, while the majority is on newer ones. If you are<br>
using an OS, it probably helps if you are willing to have a bit more<br>
patience and try to learn and investigate failures. In particular when<br>
upstream drops support for older platforms, you may need to work with<br>
them to bring that support back.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is a good advice, thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dmitri.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><br><br>-- <br>Dmitri Zaitsev<br>School of Mathematics<br>Trinity College Dublin<br><br>WWW: <a href="http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/" target="_blank">http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/</a><br><br>