Has anyone else noticed how slowwwww downloading the patches for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">mpfr</span> MacPort is? I need mpfr as a prerequisite for the gcc41 and gcc42 ports. At first my attempt to install mpfr failed like this:
<br><br><blockquote># port install mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Fetching mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch01 from <a href="http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/</a><br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch02 from <a href="http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/</a><br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch02 from <a href="http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/mpfr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/mpfr</a><br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch02 from 
<a href="http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/</a><br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch02 from 
<a href="http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/mpfr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/mpfr</a><br>Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed<br>Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.<br></blockquote><br>But then I re-started like this and the patches started to download and install but it took a relatively large amount of time. I&#39;m wondering if anyone might know why? 
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"># port -v install mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Fetching mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; patch02 doesn&#39;t seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr
<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch02 from <a href="http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/">http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/</a><br>&nbsp; % Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; % Received % Xferd&nbsp; Average Speed&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp; Current<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dload&nbsp; Upload&nbsp;&nbsp; Total&nbsp;&nbsp; Spent&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Left&nbsp; Speed
<br>100&nbsp; 1687&nbsp; 100&nbsp; 1687&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp; 0:09:22&nbsp; 0:08:47&nbsp; 0:00:35&nbsp;&nbsp; 446<br>---&gt;&nbsp; patch03 doesn&#39;t seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch03 from <a href="http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/">
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/</a><br>&nbsp; % Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; % Received % Xferd&nbsp; Average Speed&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp; Current<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dload&nbsp; Upload&nbsp;&nbsp; Total&nbsp;&nbsp; Spent&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Left&nbsp; Speed<br>100 11655&nbsp; 100 11655&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 23&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp; 0:08:26&nbsp; 0:08:21&nbsp; 0:00:05&nbsp; 3063
<br>---&gt;&nbsp; patch04 doesn&#39;t seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr<br>---&gt;&nbsp; Attempting to fetch patch04 from <a href="http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/">http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/</a><br>&nbsp; % Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; % Received % Xferd&nbsp; Average Speed&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Time&nbsp; Current
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dload&nbsp; Upload&nbsp;&nbsp; Total&nbsp;&nbsp; Spent&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Left&nbsp; Speed<br>&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 --:--:--&nbsp; 0:04:54 --:--:--&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0<br></blockquote><br><br>Thanks for any info,<br><br>T.M.<br>
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