fetch hang

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:31, Loren Rosen wrote:

>> I'm trying to install wordpress. After installing all
>> the dependencies, it hangs right here:
>> --->  Fetching wordpress
>> --->  Attempting to fetch wordpress-2.5.1.tar.gz from
>> ftp://ftp.stu.edu.tw/pub/wordpress/
>>
>> I've waited for it to timeout, killed it and tried
>> again, but it always ends up in the same place. There
>> doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the docs about
>> imposing a timeout, or forcing it to use a specific mirror.
>
> I could download wordpress and continue manually, though that of  
> course defeats the whole point of macports.

See the fetch failures section of the problem hotlist for some  
workarounds, especially the second paragraph:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures