Customisation of the MacPorts download method

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

How have you figured the VM to connect to the network. Direct, or NAT ?

Does MacPorts work OK on the host machine directly ?

I have serveral OSX VMs running in a MacMini, previously running OSX 
10.9 (now 10.10), and they worked just fine with MacPorts. I have them 
connecting directly to my home network, so they appear as machines in 
their own right on the network. This is with VMware fusion though, not 
virtual box, which I am not familiar with, but I imagine it has similar 
networking options... If you are currently using NAT, I would maybe see 
if a direct connection helps ...

Chris

On 27/10/14 16:32, Artur Szostak wrote:
> OK,
>
> I am running OS X 10.9 in VirtualBox on a MacMini, itself running 10.9. The purpose is to have a build/test image that can be thrown away and recreated. MacPorts 2.3.1 is installed on the virtual machine guest from the provided package: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.1-10.9-Mavericks.pkg
>
> When trying to install wcslib with the following command:
>    sudo port install wcslib
> The command hangs at the point where it is trying to download the file wcslib-4.23.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/wcslib/. At some point it eventually times out and the command fails.
>
> When trying to download the file (ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/wcslib/wcslib-4.23.tar.bz2) manually with the curl command, I reproduce the hang. However, when trying to download the same file with wget it downloads successfully.
>
> Looking through the verbose trace of curl's connection produces no clues as to what may be wrong:
>
> $ curl -v ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/wcslib/wcslib-4.23.tar.bz2
> * Adding handle: conn: 0x7fa751805e00
> * Adding handle: send: 0
> * Adding handle: recv: 0
> * Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
> * - Conn 0 (0x7fa751805e00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
> * About to connect() to ftp.atnf.csiro.au port 21 (#0)
> *   Trying 150.229.106.20...
> * Connected to ftp.atnf.csiro.au (150.229.106.20) port 21 (#0)
> < 220-This is the anonymous FTP server operated by
> < 220-  CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science and
> < 220-  CSIRO ICT Centre.
> < 220-
> < 220-All transfers from this machine are logged.
> < 220 If you don't agree with this policy then please disconnect now.
>> USER anonymous
> < 230 Anonymous user logged in
>> PWD
> < 257 "/" is your current location
> * Entry path is '/'
>> CWD pub
> < 250 OK. Current directory is /pub
>> CWD software
> < 250 OK. Current directory is /pub/software
>> CWD wcslib
> < 250 OK. Current directory is /pub/software/wcslib
>> EPSV
> * Connect data stream passively
> < 229 Extended Passive mode OK (|||60326|)
> *   Trying 150.229.106.20...
> * Connecting to 150.229.106.20 (150.229.106.20) port 60326
>> TYPE I
> (hangs, no more output)
>
>
> So, its clear its a networking problem, but its not clear at what level. It could be either on the server side, in the VirtualBox networking, or in curl itself.
> I would love to solve the route cause of the problem, but I do not see how this is going to be fixed anytime soon. Thus, for the time being I need a workaround if possible: Can one tell MacPorts to use a different download tool?
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Artur
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jeremy Lavergne [jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org]
> Sent: 27 October 2014 16:40
> To: Artur Szostak
> Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: Re: Customisation of the MacPorts download method
>
> Can you elaborate on the issues?
>
> Rather than avoiding the problem it’d be best to fix it.
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:38, Artur Szostak <aszostak at partner.eso.org> wrote:
>
>> Am I correct in assuming that MacPorts uses curl or the curl library to perform source code downloads?
>> And is there any way to customise this? for example, get MacPorts to use wget instread?
>>
>> The reason is that I am experiencing problems with curl, while wget works.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>
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