teTeX-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz fetch failure

[jmm@…]

I'm actually trying to install gnuplot, but the fetch hangs when trying to fetch teTeX, one of the dependencies. Trying to install teTeX itself produces exactly the same effect; output shown below. I'm running macports 1.6 on OSX 10.4.11 on a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac.

$ sudo port -v install tetex  
--->  Fetching teTeX
--->  tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/teTeX
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 87.1M  100 87.1M    0     0  53822      0  0:28:18  0:28:18 --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 87.1M  100 87.1M    0     0  51369      0  0:29:39  0:29:39 --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 87.1M  100 87.1M    0     0  55705      0  0:27:20  0:27:20 --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/teTeX
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
--->  Attempting to fetch tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/teTeX
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Warning: the following items did not execute (for teTeX): org.macports.activate org.macports.fetch org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[jmm@…]

Allen Rawls sent me a workaround that did the trick. In the extract from his email below, "URL" is ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz. (moved up here for clarity).

* cd /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/teTeX
* remove any *.TMP files, as those are the download attemps if it kept any
* sudo wget URL. If you don't have wget, you can also use curl: sudo curl URL > tetex-texmf-3.0po.tar.gz
* once the file is downloaded, run sudo port -v install tetex again. It took about 10 minutes for me, but it installed, skipping the fetch since it found the files in the proper directory.
* then I went back and ran sudo port -v install gnuplot and it picked up where it left off, after tetex.

Hope this helps, at least until they can figure out the problem.

It worked just as described, many thanks for the workaround.

[jmr@…]

Assigning to maintainer. This should no longer be a problem for gnuplot, since it now uses texlive instead (and in fact it should only ever have been a problem when using the tutorial variant).

Also, FWIW, I don't see any problems when fetching the teTeX distfiles.