Has anyone else noticed how slowwwww downloading the patches for the mpfrMacPort is? I need mpfr as a prerequisite for the gcc41 and gcc42 ports. At first my attempt to install mpfr failed like this: # port install mpfr ---> Fetching mpfr ---> Attempting to fetch patch01 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/mpfr ---> Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/mpfr Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. 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'm wondering if anyone might know why? # port -v install mpfr

---> Fetching mpfr ---> patch02 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr ---> Attempting to fetch patch02 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1687 100 1687 0 0 3 0 0:09:22 0:08:47 0:00:35 446 ---> patch03 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr ---> Attempting to fetch patch03 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 11655 100 11655 0 0 23 0 0:08:26 0:08:21 0:00:05 3063 ---> patch04 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr ---> Attempting to fetch patch04 from http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:04:54 --:--:-- 0

Thanks for any info, T.M.