Option for a "local mirror"?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:28 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
> Squid is a caching proxy. Distfiles downloaded by macports are cached
> like anything else. The only setup needed is to tell each machine to use
> the proxy in System Preferences.

or set up your local network to force traffic through squid (so you don't need to configure anything on the individual hosts). I know of a bunch of people who've used squid + wccp specifically to make softwareupdate not have to re-download large updates multiple times over a somewhat-slow link.

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