[MacPorts] #60590: Macports mirrors are down?

[Saagar Jha]

Though it’s not the default, you can actually tell MacPorts to use Git to sync your ports, at least; see the third part of section 2.3.3 in the guide <https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git>.

Saagar Jha

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 16:05, Christopher Chavez <chrischavez at gmx.us> wrote:
> 
> On 6/5/2020 12:32 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> or switch to a different source, e.g. git
> As a user, I've thought it would be great if MacPorts used git syncing
> by default. I have used git-over-https since 2016 when I was constrained
> to ports 80/443 by a university campus network. I had found it also
> avoided needlessly writing hundreds of MB to the SSD when updating the
> ports tree. If GitHub outages are a concern, then I would think falling
> back to a mirror hosted by GitLab/SourceForge/Bitbucket/etc. should be
> possible.
> 
> Christopher A. Chavez

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