port fetch not completing for ftp urls

[darwinb@…]

a 'port fetch bison' (as an example) always downloads 1314816 bytes and fails to complete i.e leaves bison-2.1.tar.gz.TMP

any fetch which uses http completes rather than ftp

I have tried changing the network settings and 2 different adsl installations with exactly the same result (and with/without firewall and with/without the system PASV FTP option)

[jberry@…]

What kind of Mac do you have, and how old is it? Some of the late-model G5's have a version of curl that doesn't work correctly, and they have difficulties downloading certain software. Does that apply to you? Apple has not yet patched this bug in a system update, but hopefully will soon.

[darwinb@…]

(In reply to comment #1)

What kind of Mac do you have, and how old is it? Some of the late-model G5's have a version of curl that doesn't work correctly, and they have difficulties downloading certain software. Does that apply to you? Apple has not yet patched this bug in a system update, but hopefully will soon.

Ah - yes, this was with a new G5 updated to 10.4.3 (and also a colleague's new powerbook and similarly updated) starting from scratch with a new port tree. I will check by installing the ports' curl and adjust the path. Replacing curl doesn't fix the ftp url problem. My guess is that base/src/pextlib1.0/curl.c needs checking?

[darwinb@…]

couple of further test which may help - using identical syntax for the Apple curl and ports' curl shows that the non-completion is fixed with the newer ports' curl.

going to base/src/pextlib1.0 (after a configure&&make) and running 'make test' also exhibits the same problem when it gets to the netperf ftp transfer but this is not a problem on my Panther systems so this may be a Tiger or Xcode problem but I don't know which.

[darwinb@…]

Apple Security Update 2005-09 fixes the problem after base is re-built and installed many thanks Neil