port mirrors

Phil Dobbin phildobbin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 08:07:11 PDT 2012


Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 
>> Clemens Lang wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>>>> Is there a sources list where I can comment out mse.uk or change its
>>>> order or level or is this A Bad Idea?
>>> The list of package mirrors is defined in
>>>  $(port dir nzbget)/../../_resources/port1.0/fetch/archive_sites.tcl
>>>
>>> Note that this file will probably be reset with every sync and/or
>>> selfupdate you run.
>> And that reads:
>>
>> `set portfetch::mirror_sites::sites(macports_archives) {
>> http://packages.macports.org/:nosubdir
>> http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/:nosubdir
>> http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/:nosubdir`
>>
>> so is that's not in the order of mirrors polled first?
> 
> IIRC the order is determined by ping response.

`$ ping mse.uk.packages.macports.org
PING www.mirrorservice.org (212.219.56.184): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.219.56.184: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=17.979 ms
64 bytes from 212.219.56.184: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=17.917 ms`

`$ ping lil.fr.packages.macports.org
PING macports.packages.ionic.de (87.98.244.45): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 87.98.244.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=21.644 ms
64 bytes from 87.98.244.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=21.675 ms`

yep, looks about right.

Cheers,

  Phil...

-- 
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