On 3/22/14, 12:40 PM, Derek Homeier wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2014, at 04:50 am, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> The second is something we can work with.  The central site where most
>> of the rest get their data is stuck for some reason, and I tried to
>> contact an administrator today.
>>
>> You might want to change your rsync mirror
>>
>> rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
>>
>> since that site updates independently and is currently up.
>
> BTW is it possible to modify something like the regional list of mirrors as 
> well?
> Currently some sites,most notoriously distfiles.ams.nl.eu.finkmirrors.net and
> distfiles.hel.fi.eu.finkmirrors.net are down almost all the time, yet (at 
> least with
> MirrorOrder Master-First) fink keeps going back to them to download sources
> and just gets no response, so on a larger update it is waiting every time for 
> the
> timeout and then for the timeout for the default next mirror choice unless 
> one is
> sitting by and intervenes manually during the download phase.
>
> Cheers,
>                                       Derek
>

Sure.  The easiest method is to remove or comment (via a '#') entries in 
the files under /sw/lib/fink/mirror.  This is also a mechanism by which 
one can add a local repository.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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