boost: Attempt to install an older version (1.42) failed

[amidu.o.oloso@…]

The tail of the log file is:

:debug:fetch Fetching distfile failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404
:notice:fetch --->  Attempting to fetch patch-libs-random-random_device.cpp.diff from http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/boost
:debug:fetch Fetching distfile failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404
:notice:fetch --->  Attempting to fetch patch-libs-random-random_device.cpp.diff from http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/boost
:debug:fetch Fetching distfile failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404
:notice:fetch --->  Attempting to fetch patch-libs-random-random_device.cpp.diff from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/boost
:debug:fetch Fetching distfile failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404
:error:fetch org.macports.fetch for port boost returned: fetch failed
:debug:fetch Error code: NONE
:debug:fetch Backtrace: fetch failed
    while executing
"portfetch::fetchfiles"
    (procedure "portfetch::fetch_main" line 17)
    invoked from within
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:fetch Warning: targets not executed for boost: org.macports.activate org.macports.fetch org.macports.checksum org.macports.extract org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
:notice:fetch 

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It sounds like you haven't followed the instructions properly. It sounds like you got the older version of the portfile, but did not also get the corresponding version of the files directory, which should contain the patch files.