[MacPorts] #49496: Offer a choice of mirror server in the MacPorts installer package

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#49496: Offer a choice of mirror server in the MacPorts installer package
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Low           |  Milestone:
Component:  base          |    Version:  2.3.99
 Keywords:                |       Port:
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 It was suggested in #49452 that the MacPorts installer package could offer
 the user the choice of which [wiki:Mirrors MacPorts mirror server] to use.
 Since the installer automatically runs selfupdate when it's done, such an
 option would help new users in situations where the primary rsync server
 is slow or suffering from an outage. It would also make it easier for
 users who want to use a different MacPorts mirror, since otherwise the
 user has to edit multiple configuration files.

 This could be accomplished by offering sub-packages in the installer, much
 like the Xcode 3 installer did where it offered you checkboxes to select
 whether to install the command line tools or the old OS X SDK.

 We would have to somehow ensure that one and only one of the mirrors is
 selected.
 We would also have to consider what to do in the case of an existing
 MacPorts installation configured to use something other than the rsync
 server for its ports tree (but still using rsync for selfupdate, since
 there is no alternative for that). The simplest might be to make no
 changes in this case.

 A further enhancement could be to detect (e.g. via ping) which server is
 closest and default to using that.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49496>
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