<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don’t understand what it means to try using MacPorts master (2.6.99) instead. You’re assuming far more knowledge or experience than I possess!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where on GitHub is that version? What do I do with it? If I install it, what happens to all the ports I already installed under Big Sur 11.1 using 2.6.4?</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the cited Comment 3 says that if that does not work, to set the number of simultaneous pings lower, which is what I’m trying to do. So is the cited line in file /opt/local/libexec/macports/lib/port1.0/fetch_common.tcl only for this 2.6.99?<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Jan2021, at 4:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Jan 27, 2021, at 15:20, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">In file <br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>/opt/local/libexec/macports/lib/port1.0/fetch_common.tcl<br class=""><br class="">I find NO line set max_hosts_to_ping<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>set max_hosts_to_ping<br class=""><br class="">max_hosts_to_pingcontrary to the comment <a href="https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2020-November/042592.html" class="">https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2020-November/042592.html</a> and <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61683#comment:16" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61683#comment:16</a>.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I guess you missed the earlier step:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61683#comment:3" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61683#comment:3</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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