unable to fetch droppatch.tar.gz when trying to install swftools

[nshah9@…]

When trying to install swftools, I get the following error:

--->  Fetching giflib
--->  Attempting to fetch giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/giflib
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for giflib
--->  Extracting giflib
--->  Applying patches to giflib
--->  Configuring giflib
--->  Building giflib with target all
--->  Staging giflib into destroot
--->  Installing giflib 4.1.6_0
--->  Activating giflib 4.1.6_0
--->  Cleaning giflib
--->  Fetching jpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://www.ijg.org/files
--->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/jpeg
--->  Attempting to fetch droppatch.tar.gz from http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: jpeg lame openjpeg
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I'm on Mac OS X version 10.5.8 and using macports version 1.6.

Also when I try to update macports I get the following error:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization the local ports tree failed doing rsync

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

You need to selfupdate and the real problem is that you cannot. Please read the FAQ about this. If you are still having problems, post to the ​Macports-Users mailing list. However, it will likely be easier to delete your old version of Macports and ​install the latest version fresh.