Global master_sites option (in conf)

[chenggao@…]

I really hope Macports can have two features:

1 Global master_sites option to override Portfile settings I find some sites (esp. sf.net) are very slow. For many ports, I have to manually download source tarballs from distfiles.macports.org and then rerun port install.

How about add a global option to allow us to use distfiles.macports.org only? It can override master_sites in all Portfiles.

Since it seems distfiles.macports.org mirror all files, the natural way is like this:

use_main_mirror yes

If set, all source tarballs will be downloaded from distfiles.macports.org.

Hope server is robust enough or at least smoke/fire-proof enough.

2. Use some download acceleration tool like axel

It can accelerate and resume downloading.

If combined with above setting, once again I hope server is super robust and super smoke/fire-proof.

[andre.david@…]

Replying to chenggao@…:

I really hope Macports can have two features:

2. Use some download acceleration tool like axel

It can accelerate and resume downloading.

If combined with above setting, once again I hope server is super robust and super smoke/fire-proof.

I actually second the need to auto-resume partial downloads. From home it is virtually impossible to update a large package without this. And it is a feature that wget and (the new to me) axel support out of the box.

[markjfe@…]

Addition to request no. 1 in the original post:

Request that option should be to select downloads site, not just a flag to force the master site. Ref #28054 which describes a similar issue.

[jmr@…]

Options for preferred and blacklisted servers added in r89459. "Download acceleration" is a whole other feature, so this should really have been two tickets, but I believe there are already other tickets covering that kind of thing anyway.