Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#28054 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Allow user to specify preferred distfiles mirror

Reported by: markjfe@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

I live in Hong Kong and when downloading GNU distfiles port will select ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp as the mirror. However the download rates for this mirror are very slow (~30kbps) from Hong Kong. A much faster mirror is the AARNet mirror in Brisbane Australia.

There seems to be no way to force port to use a particular mirror when downloading distfiles. Setting MASTER_SITE_LOCAL has no impact. Altering sources.conf also has no impact.

As a workaround I have removed ftp.dti.ad.jp from mirrors.tcl and port is currently selecting the AARNet mirror as I prefer. However this mirrors.tcl file will be overwritten the next time port selfupdate is run.

I would like to suggest that there should be a way to override the selected mirror with a preferred mirror. Either as a command-line option or an option in a configuration file.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Component: portsbase
Milestone: MacPorts Future
Type: defectenhancement

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Summary: Unable to select mirror for downloading distfilesAllow user to specify preferred distfiles mirror

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts Future
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
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