Fetch file -- use axel or prozilla instead of curl

[Kevin Ballard]

I find it highly unlikely that any speed problems are curl's fault.  
It's hard to write a slow HTTP downloader ;)

Perhaps you should try editing /opt/local/share/darwinports/resources/ 
port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl and reordering the mirror list?

On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:18 AM, CHENG Gao wrote:

> I find file fetch is fairly slow esp. for sites like sf.net. port  
> always
> chooses mirror easynews which is slow for me and prone of timeout. I
> checked /usr/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/port1.0/portfetch.tcl (I use
> /usr/local instead of /opt/local) and find file fetch uses curl.  
> Since I
> installed and tested axel, I find it's fairly good, about as fast as
> prozilla (I have experience of using Gentoo which uses prozilla).
>
> My question  is how to hack portfetch.tcl to use axel instead. Sure
> simply change curl to axel does not work.
>
> Wish someone can help me. Thanks.

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Kevin Ballard
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