Problem updating git-core

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 31, 2014, at 18:06, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Has anyone else noticed a problem fetching the git tarball from kernel.org? I can do so successfully through my browser but it stalls with a zero-length .TMP file when trying to update the port. The update was prompted by running "selfupdate" then "upgrade outdated".
> 
> I was hoping it was some misbehavior of kernel.org but this has been trouble for a couple of days now. Any suggestions for debugging this?

That does sound like misbehavior of that server. Have you talked to them about it?

MacPorts eventually gives up on servers that are delivering files too slowly, so if you just wait, it should eventually either finish downloading (if it’s just going slowly), or re-try from a different server.