> > > > 1. As I did not change anything on my system, why did all the files > download correctly this time but not the last time? > > Most likely the files were successfully fetched via one of the > macports mirror this time, while last time you tried: > - the file was not mirrored yet (at the location from where you tried > to fetch it) > - fetching from the original site failed because of SSL issues (you > would need to install two instances of macports; an auxiliary one at > some non-standard prefix; and the real one at the default prefix, and > configure that one to use curl from the auxiliary installation). > > I didn't check the evidence, but I strongly believe that was the case. > So nothing unusual. >
Just trying to understand it better, does it mean when I attempted to access those file, their mirroring had been initiated but it took many hours before the completion? Is it documented somewhere? I have built another copy of macports from source in /opt/macports-test, is there any way I can test it against some SSL limiting site? > It could be that switching to the latest compiler would help. You can > try building with > sudo port -v build rust configure.compiler=macports-clang-7.0 > or something like that (I'm not 100% sure if the command is exactly > right as I'm not behind my mac right now). > > But that won't give you any guarantee that the build would succeed. > You might need to ask upstream for help (if they will bother > supporting old systems, that is) or try to investigate yourself. There > is a small number of developers still having access and bothering > about older OSes, while the majority is on newer ones. If you are > using an OS, it probably helps if you are willing to have a bit more > patience and try to learn and investigate failures. In particular when > upstream drops support for older platforms, you may need to work with > them to bring that support back. > > That is a good advice, thanks. Cheers, Dmitri. -- Dmitri Zaitsev School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
