mpfr fetch problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 18, 2008, at 22:42, Altoine Barker wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:09, Altoine Barker wrote:
>>
>>> My SPECS:
>>>
>>> Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual         Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4
>>> XCode 3.1.1                        XCode 3.1.1
>>> MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)            MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)
>>>
>>> I can not fetch the mpfr port. It just hangs there attempting to  
>>> fetch
>>> but not succeeding. I went to the www.mpfr.org website and it  
>>> appears to
>>> be down like www.openjpeg.org was a week ago. I tried the  following
>>> solution provided to me by Bryan that was posted at:
>>>
>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures
>>>
>>> And ran the following command:
>>>
>>> sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr  
>>> port -v
>>> fetch mpfr
>>
>> The mpfr port stores its distfiles in a directory for each  
>> version. You
>> can see this by visiting:
>>
>> http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr
>>
>> So you would need to run this:
>>
>> sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr/ 
>> 2.3.2 port -v
>> fetch mpfr
>
> Thank you. That worked. I vow to never make that mistake again.

:) Glad it worked, and sorry for the inconvenience. We really need to  
get that 1.7.0 release out the door so it'll do this automatically  
for you.