fetch timeout

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:30 AM Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On 20 Jul 2022, at 1:13 am, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev
> <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.  If port curl is already installed and active, then why would
> subsequent port fetches prefer /usr/bin/curl?  Is this a search path issue?
>
>
> No. port does not rely on finding ‘curl’, from PATH. It instead uses the
> system lib curl which it is liked against. The only way to get port to use
> a different curl is to rebuild base, configured to use that version.
>

Ah, that is what I missed.  How about adding a fallback option to use an
alternate command line curl through PATH, when available, after normal
fetch attempts have failed?  My hope is that this would ultimately reduce
time spent on debugging connection and SSL issues.
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