Troubles installing ports with Macports 2.3.1

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-7-3 04:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
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>>> On Jul 1, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Joël Brogniart wrote:
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>>>> I suppose that, during the "Computing dependencies for auto-multiple-choice" phase, a lot of http requests are made to obtain port information and that these requests are not fully closed either by Macports or by the proxy. As this problem is recent (at least for me), it is perhaps related to a recent Java update (the proxy is a java application).
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>>> During "computing dependencies", no http requests would be made by MacPorts, as far as I know.
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>> To determine whether build dependencies are required, it must know
>> whether an archive is available, and to find that out, it (usually) must
>> query the packages server.
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> Ok, but that would only be enough http requests to determine if an archive for the main port is available, right? So ideally 1 http request (in the case where the archive exists on the server it tried), or maybe a few requests (to check a few additional servers). It wouldn't be proportional to the number of dependencies.

Dependency calculation is a recursive process. Dependencies can have
dependencies of their own.

- Josh