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We have many ports with sourceforge URLs that don't work reliably (for whatever reason), and its always a pain to build these ports. So I propose that everybody change their URLs to the one that has always worked for me: http://prdownloads.sf.net/projectname/file-version.tar.gz Example: [root@ares2 libid3tag]# sudo -H -u pkgmk fakeroot pkgmk -do =======> Downloading 'http://dl.sourceforge.net/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz'. --2010-06-16 13:05:11-- http://dl.sourceforge.net/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz Resolving dl.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.138 Connecting to dl.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://sourceforge.net/downloads/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz [following] --2010-06-16 13:05:11-- http://sourceforge.net/downloads/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz Resolving sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60 Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-06-16 13:05:11 ERROR 404: Not Found. =======> ERROR: Downloading 'http://dl.sourceforge.net/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz' failed. [root@ares2 libid3tag]# sed -i -e 's|http://dl.sourceforge.net/| http://prdownloads.sf.net/|g' Pkgfile [root@ares2 libid3tag]# sudo -H -u pkgmk fakeroot pkgmk -do =======> Downloading 'http://prdownloads.sf.net/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz'. =======> Partial download found, trying to resume --2010-06-16 13:05:28-- http://prdownloads.sf.net/mad/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz Resolving prdownloads.sf.net... 216.34.181.129 Connecting to prdownloads.sf.net|216.34.181.129|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mad/libid3tag/0.15.1b/libid3tag-0.1... [following] --2010-06-16 13:05:28-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mad/libid3tag/0.15.1b/libid3tag-0.1... Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mad/libid3tag/0.15.1b/libid3tag... [following] --2010-06-16 13:05:29-- http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mad/libid3tag/0.15.1b/libid3tag... Resolving hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net... 74.50.111.26 Connecting to hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net|74.50.111.26|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 338143 (330K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `/usr/ports/dist/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz.partial' 100%[=======================================================>] 338,143 115K/s in 2.9s 2010-06-16 13:05:32 (115 KB/s) - `/usr/ports/dist/libid3tag-0.15.1b.tar.gz.partial' saved [338143/338143] -- Alan