Distfile Mirror Issues

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2020, at 20:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I'll ask them if they want to enable older algorithms or allow 
>> non-https access. If they want to do neither, I'll configure MacPorts 
>> to remove that mirror on OS versions that can't connect to it.
>
> They've reinstated old ciphers so now it'll work back to Mac OS X 10.6. 
> I'll get master_sites.tcl and archive_sites.tcl updated to pick this and 
> other mirrors only on compatible OS versions.

I'm not sure that's important, since the SSL-related failures are fairly 
quick, and having to maintain a compatibility du jour list for mirrors 
versus OS versions is just an added hassle.  The mirrors that are actually 
down are more annoying, since that involves timeouts, but that's not 
something that one would expect to be reflected in a list (except for 
permanent decommisioning).

Fred Wright