On Jan 4, 2012, at 00:49, Mark Brethen wrote: > As far as I know svn downloads to the work directory. MacPorts doesn't save it, does it? Oh sorry, I forgot, reduce doesn't use distfiles; it downloads from svn. So yes, you'd have to fetch again every time you build it or its subports, until #16373 gets implemented. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16373