Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#28054 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Allow user to specify preferred distfiles mirror
| Reported by: | markjfe@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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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 14 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
| Component: | ports → base |
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| Milestone: | → MacPorts Future |
| Type: | defect → enhancement |
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Summary: | Unable to select mirror for downloading distfiles → Allow user to specify preferred distfiles mirror |
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comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Milestone: | MacPorts Future |
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| Resolution: | → duplicate |
| Status: | new → closed |
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