MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 16, 2018, at 11:28 AM, db <iamsudo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2018, at 16:03, "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>> portfiles could in theory attempt to connect to any port, so a comprehensive list like you're asking for is probably not possible to create.
> 
> But there could be one in practice, as there is infrastructure building all ports. Ever upgraded outdated overnight to find in the morning that it couldn't fetch a file?

nope, but I'm not behind a firewall with stupid policy ;-)

Most distfiles are available via http/s (there used to be a small number that only had ftp mirrors - but I stopped keeping track of that when we moved off of MacOS Forge and stopped using my proxy server for the distfiles mirror). There are some ports that (unwisely) also use various scm's to pull sources directly. This should be discouraged.

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Daniel J. Luke