portmaster fails to fetch distfiles

[Rene Ladan]

2008/7/12 Roman Levitskiy <root at letinet.org>:
>  Hello freebsd-ports subscribers.
>  Some time ago I've started using portmaster, and faced with
> trouble: for unknown reason, it cannot fetch distfile.
> For example, today I have started upgrading clamav package
> using "portmaster clamav" command. It give me such looping
> messages:
>
> ===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for security/clamav <<<===
> ===>  Found saved configuration for clamav-0.93.1_2
> => clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/.
> clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz
>
> ===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for security/clamav <<<===
> ===>  Found saved configuration for clamav-0.93.1_2
> => clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/.
> clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz
>
> ===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for security/clamav <<<===
> ===>  Found saved configuration for clamav-0.93.1_2
> => clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/.
> clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz
>
>  The same situation seen frequently with other ports - it continues
> trying to fetch file with no success. After some time, it can got it,
> but it start boring me.
>  Can say for sure, that distfiles are existing. As in above example,
> it I issue  a command "# fetch
> http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/clamav-0.93.3.tar.gz",
> it is starting downloading immediately.
>
>  Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>
On my box (i386 7.0-REL), portmaster fetches the files just fine.
Sometimes it shows these looping messages until the download is
complete.  In my experience, nchc is quite slow (about 4 kB/s), so it
will show a lot of these messages.

hth,
Rene
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