On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Charlse Darwin <macports.users@gmail.com> wrote:
$ sudo port install bing ---> Fetching bing ---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http:// www.freenix.org/reseau/ ---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http:// svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/bing ---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http:// svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch bing-1.0.5.tar.gz from http:// svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/bing Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. $
This isn't the most helpful error message you could have composed, Charlse. It looks like freenix.org redirects to here ( http://www.usenix.org/events/bytopic/freenix.html) kitchen:~ paul$ ping freenix.org PING freenix.org (208.67.219.130): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.67.219.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=64.320 ms 64 bytes from 208.67.219.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=63.792 ms ^C --- freenix.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 63.792/64.056/64.320/0.264 ms and that www.freenix.org is unreachable. Connection closed by foreign host. kitchen:~ paul$ ping www.freenix.org PING www.freenix.org (194.57.169.110): 56 data bytes 36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 452d 0 0000 30 01 0e4a 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110 36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 4533 0 0000 30 01 0e44 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110 36 bytes from or-angers-nantes.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.182.149): Destination Net Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 4553 0 0000 30 01 0e24 192.168.10.226 194.57.169.110 ^C --- www.freenix.org ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss and looking at the port's information, I can find out where the project is based and find out that that server is the same as the unreachable one above. kitchen:~ paul$ port info bing bing 1.0.5, net/bing (Variants: universal) http://www.freenix.fr/freenix/logiciels/bing.html Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link. and it looks like the project may be dormant. Subcategory: Bandwidth / Throughput Measurement bing *URL:*http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/index-en.shtml*Contact:*Author: Pierre Beyssac ( pb @ fasterix.freenix.fr )*Overview:*Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.*Access:*Original page is no longer maintained. A mirror exists for Bing 1.3.5<http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-1.3.5.tar.gz> . But there is a mirror listed there. You may want incorporate that into the Portfile and see if it works. A diff from that would be helpful. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@gmail.com>