qt4-mac hanging on intsallation/update

[harperic@…]

I am trying to install py32-pyqt4 on my mac running OS X 10.6. Currently, macports is hanging on qt4:

Attempting to fetch qt4-mac-4.8.4_6.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/qt4-mac

It has been sitting here for a while now, over half hour, so I just wanted to bring to your attention.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

This file is 168 MB. So, if your internet connection is slow this could take a while to download. You can also ^C out and try it again; port is smart enough to start the download where it left off before, so you don't have to download the same data twice.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to michaelld@…:

This file is 168 MB. So, if your internet connection is slow this could take a while to download.

Yes. If you use the -d switch you should see the progress of the download as it's happening (sudo port -d install qt4-mac), that way you'll know if it's stuck or just taking a long time.

You can also ^C out and try it again; port is smart enough to start the download where it left off before, so you don't have to download the same data twice.

Are you sure? I'm sure MacPorts does not resume distfile downloads; looking in the source briefly, I don't think that archive/package downloads are any different. If you interrupt the download, when you try again, it'll delete the partial download and start again from the beginning.