Distfiles mirror behind proxy

[Joshua Root]

Max Asato wrote:
> We would ideally like to mirror the primary distfile server internally
> as well, but it sounds like that the new distserver.macports.org site
> is tied to the 1.7 release.  I've futzed around with the mirror_sites.tcl
> file a bit so it looks like it would be possible to direct our users
> to an internal mirror first before trying to navigate through the
> proxies.  Are there any reasons not to do this?  It looks like the
> MASTER_SITE_LOCAL environment variable mechanism doesn't support
> subdirectories under 1.6, does 1.7 work differently?

You could edit the macports mirror group in
/opt/local/share/macports/resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl to
contain "http://your.mirror.host/:mirror".

> Last but not least, is there any way to get MacPorts to install packages
> from a port archive file that was built on another system?  I've set the
> portarchivemode parameter in macports.conf on two intel Macs (both
> running 10.4.11), built a package on one and copied the archive over
> to /opt/local/var/macports/packages/darwin/i386/ on the other but
> MacPorts ignored the archive and attempted to fetch and build the
> package again on the other system.  It would be nice if we didn't have
> to subject every Scipy user to a bootstrap build of gcc.

At least in theory, the -b option should do this.

- Josh