download problem from sf.net

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Sep 15 16:58:13 PDT 2009


On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:24, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> 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).

Might also be nice to have an option that forces downloads to never  
use the MacPorts mirrors (as an easy way for maintainers to try to  
verify checksum failures users report).




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