download problem from sf.net

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> From own experience I know that one of the Swiss mirrors has a very  
>> fast
>> ping but often times out when you actually try to download a file.  
>> Half
>> the time I want to download something from sf I get nothing but an  
>> error
>> message.
>
> You can locally edit your mirrorsites.tcl file and remove  
> problematic mirrors, but if a mirror is generally problematic (i.e.  
> not just a problem on your network), then we should remove it from  
> the list entirely. Do you know what server it is?

It might be nice to have an option that forces downloads to only use  
the macports mirrors (as an easy way for the end-user to work around  
mirror issues).

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