Distfile Mirror Issues

[Fred Wright]

I'm now getting the following (on 10.9):

12:25:23.006: --->  Fetching distfiles for py313-meson
12:25:23.008: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://mirror.fcix.net/macports/distfiles/py-meson
12:25:23.477: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/py-meson
12:25:24.219: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/1.10.0
12:25:25.188: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/py-meson
12:25:25.378: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://bos.us.distfiles.macports.org/py-meson
[...]
12:25:29.520: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://fco.it.distfiles.macports.org/py-meson
12:25:29.903: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://pek.cn.distfiles.macports.org/macports/distfiles/py-meson
12:25:31.691: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://jog.id.distfiles.macports.org/macports/distfiles/py-meson
12:25:32.117: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://aarnet.au.distfiles.macports.org/pub/macports/distfiles/py-meson
12:25:32.681: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://atl.us.distfiles.macports.org/py-meson
12:25:32.863: --->  Attempting to fetch meson-1.10.0.tar.gz from http://lis.pt.distfiles.macports.org/py-meson
12:25:59.130:: Error: Failed to fetch py313-meson: Failed connect to lis.pt.distfiles.macports.org:80; Operation now in progress

I've seen the last error multiple times lately on that particular mirror. 
It happens after a delay (timeout?).  I'm not sure if that mirror just 
happens to be the last one in the list, or if MacPorts is treating that 
error as fatal (the debug output suggests the latter).  In any case, that 
particular mirror seems to be broken right now.  Since it's an http fetch, 
it's obviously not an SSL/TLS issue.  I suppose the seven years of bad 
luck go to its owner rather than to MacPorts. :-)

A separate issue is that this distfile doesn't seem to be getting to *any* 
of the mirrors, suggesting a problem with the mirroring mechanism.  It may 
not be a coincidence that GitHub fetches from 10.9 with the OS tools 
stopped working recently (01-Jan?), apparently due to a root CA issue on 
10.9.  They do work with fetch.ignore_sslcert=yes, and of course normal 
SSH-based GitHub access works fine.  So perhaps the distfile mirror 
distributor has an expired root CA.

I've installed the apple-pki-bundle port, but the usage instructions boil 
down to RTFC, which I don't have time for right now.

Fred Wright