[MacPorts] #53347: distfile mirrors not automatically updating

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#53347: distfile mirrors not automatically updating
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  Reporter:  GregoryEAllen   |      Owner:  admin@…
      Type:  defect          |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  server/hosting  |    Version:
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:
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Comment (by noloader):

 Replying to [comment:1 ryandesign]:
 > ...
 > To explain: many sites now only offer downloads via https, and the
 versions of curl and openssl in Leopard and Tiger are too old to be able
 to communicate with modern https sites, so fetching the files from the
 original site fails. This wouldn't be a problem if we had our http
 distfile mirroring up and running, so we need to get it back online again.

 If it helps, I keep a handful of utilities up-to-date in `/usr/local/bin`
 as a fallback. They include cURL, OpenSSL, SCP, SSH and Wget. They all use
 static linking to avoid dll hell and versioning problems.

 Maybe MacPorts could check for an updated (more recent?) version in
 `/usr/local`. Or, allow me to specify an override in
 `/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf`:

 {{{
 curl_bin     = /usr/local/bin/curl
 openssl_bin  = /usr/local/bin/openssl
 wget_bin     = /usr/local/bin/wget
 }}}

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