Customisation of the MacPorts download method

Mon Oct 27 10:47:16 PDT 2014

The virtual machine is using NAT.
I already checked with using a bridged network instead. With this setup curl download works again. But this workaround no longer works when bringing the VM up with vagrant.

Considering no one has told me how to change the MacPorts default download method, am I to assume there is no such option?

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From: macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org [macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org] on behalf of Chris Jones [jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: 27 October 2014 17:38
To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
Subject: Re: Customisation of the MacPorts download method

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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