Archive fetch problem

[William Siegrist]

On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> I don't see why we need to honor their local setting for the pre-built packages. If they want a package frompackages.macports.org, they get it as a tbz2.  Why waste the disk space keeping 2 types? 
> 
> Because we put the tgz type in a lot of people's macports.conf, if I'm not mistaken, as the old default prior to merging in images-and-archives branch.
> 

That does not explain why MacPorts has to use that type when getting packages from the server. Why can't MacPorts handle getting tbz2 archives from a server and building tgz archives locally at the same time? 

-Bill