mpfr patches first fail then are sloowwwww!

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-07-22 13:13:47 -1000, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed how slowwwww downloading the patches for the
> mpfrMacPort is? I need mpfr as a prerequisite for the gcc41 and
> gcc42 ports. At first my attempt to install mpfr failed like this:
>
> # port install mpfr
> --->  Fetching mpfr
> --->  Attempting to fetch patch01 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/
> --->  Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/
> --->  Attempting to fetch patch02 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/mpfr
> --->  Attempting to fetch patch02 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
> --->  Attempting to fetch patch02 from
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/mpfr
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> But then I re-started like this and the patches started to download and
> install but it took a relatively large amount of time. I'm wondering if
> anyone might know why?

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FYI, I hope that MPFR 2.3.0-rc2 will be ready for the beginning of
August.

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