error fetching jpeg (was: Re: error installing xfig (jpeg))

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Dan Iancu wrote:
> 	I am new to mac ports, so this question might be very simple... I  
> have been trying to install xfig on my Intel Mac, and most of the  
> installation goes well, but when trying to fetch 'jpeg', it fails.  
> I have pasted below an attempt to install again (also failing at  
> jpeg...). Could it be that the 'jpeg' package is simply inexistent?  
> Or the servers having it are ALL down? Any help would be highly  
> appreciated. 	Thanks,
> 		-Dan
>
> daniancu> sudo port -dv install xfig

[snip]

> --->  Fetching jpeg
> DEBUG: Executing com.apple.fetch (jpeg)
> --->  jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/db/ 
> dports/distfiles/jpeg
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http:// 
> www.ijg.org/files
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: couldn't connect to server

www.ijg.org appears to be down.

> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.uu.net/ 
> graphics/jpeg
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: FTP: login denied

ftp.uu.net works for me. Maybe they had a temporary problem or there  
were too many users connected. Please try again.

> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/jpeg
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: couldn't connect to server
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> msn.opendarwin.org/jpeg
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--  
> --:--:--     0
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> bay13.opendarwin.org/jpeg
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: couldn't connect to server
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: couldn't connect to server
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> msn.opendarwin.org/
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--  
> --:--:--     0
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://distfiles- 
> bay13.opendarwin.org/
>
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: couldn't connect to server

opendarwin.org no longer exists. The OpenDarwin project shut down a  
long time ago. Not sure why it's still trying to fetch from there. Is  
your MacPorts up to date? Please run "sudo port selfupdate" to update  
it.

> Error: Target com.apple.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for jpeg):  
> com.apple.activate com.apple.fetch com.apple.extract  
> com.apple.checksum com.apple.patch com.apple.configure  
> com.apple.build com.apple.destroot com.apple.install
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: jpeg transfig  
> netpbm jasper tiff
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

As a last resort, MacPorts should have attempted to fetch the files  
from its own repository, to which the file was added three weeks ago  
when it was first noticed that www.ijg.org was down:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/14822

The fact that MacPorts did not attempt to fetch from its own  
repository also suggests that your MacPorts is out of date, which a  
selfupdate should cure.