Downloading KDE sources always AWFULLY SLOW

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Oct 30 13:18:27 PDT 2012


On Oct 30, 2012, at 09:49, MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:

> When installing KDE-related ports (kdelibs4, oxygen-icons, etc.) my machine installs usually from http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/ , but this site is always awfully slow (sometimes rates are as small as only a few kB/s)…
> 
> Is there a possibility to use another mirror for the sources?

MacPorts pings all possible master_sites and picks the ones with the lowest response time, which are hoped to be the fastest, but in this case I guess not. Are you actually in or close to Vienna, Austria?




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