<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:48 AM Christopher Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Jul 2022, at 6:32 pm, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev <<a href="mailto:macports-dev@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-dev@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:30 AM Christopher Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Jul 2022, at 1:13 am, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev <<a href="mailto:macports-dev@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-dev@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hmmm. If port curl is already installed and active, then why would subsequent port fetches prefer /usr/bin/curl? Is this a search path issue?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No. port does not rely on finding ‘curl’, from PATH. It instead uses the system lib curl which it is liked against. The only way to get port to use a different curl is to rebuild base, configured to use that version.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, that is what I missed. How about adding a fallback option to use an alternate command line curl through PATH, when available, after normal fetch attempts have failed? My hope is that this would ultimately reduce time spent on debugging connection and SSL issues.</div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Please read the discussion at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516" target="_blank">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516</a></div><div><br></div><div>and add any comments you might have. </div><div><br></div><div>In short, adding a ‘fallback to curl’ is very non trivial to do, perhaps not even possible.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris, sorry, missed this before my last reply to Joshua. I already read that ticket, will go back and study more.</div></div></div>