Downloading KDE sources always AWFULLY SLOW

[MK-MacPorts at techno.ms]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Yes, that would be another option, if it's slow just for Marko. An entry could be added to /etc/hosts for example to point the server at a black hole.
Yes, the latter was a good idea.
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$ sudo port extract kdelibs4
--->  Computing dependencies for kdelibs4
--->  Fetching distfiles for kdelibs4
--->  Attempting to fetch kdelibs-4.8.5.tar.xz from http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.8.5/src/
--->  Attempting to fetch kdelibs-4.8.5.tar.xz from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.8.5/src/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for kdelibs4
--->  Extracting kdelibs4
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Port didn't wait for the black-holed server in Vienna and went straight to kde.org which served with more than a megabyte per second, which makes a HUGE difference!