On Feb 13, 2010, at 07:44, Norman Khine wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Norman Khine wrote:
>> 
> 
>> $ sudo port install texlive
>> Password:
>> --->  Computing dependencies for texlive
>> --->  Fetching texlive_texmf-full
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> http://arn.se.distfiles.macports.org/texlive_texmf-full
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> --->  Attempting to fetch texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz from
>> ftp://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles
>> 
>> and nothing happens.
>> 
>> i have downloaded the source from
>> http://distfiles.macports.org/texlive_texmf-full/texlive_texmf-full-2007g0.tar.gz
>> 
>> how do i proceed?
>> 
> 
> ok i fixed it, i moved the downloaded file to:
> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/texlive_texmf-full

Right, that's where you should put it.


>> also i would like to know how to change the source path so that it
>> fetches the file i specify from the command line.


You cannot tell MacPorts what server to download from; it tries download 
servers in order based on ping time, so theoretically the closest mirrors 
should be tried first. I'm not sure why the file was missing from so many of 
the mirrors that got tried.


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