On 2015-9-29 11:50 , Craig Treleaven wrote: > Hi: > > What order does MacPorts use for fetching dist files? My impression was that > MacPorts would try to: > > 1) use a ‘close by’ mirror (based on ping times) > 2) fetch from the main MacPorts dist file server > (http://distfiles.macports.org/) > 3) fall back to the master_site (GitHub, in my case[a])
Nope, it goes completely by ping time (as modified by host_blacklist/preferred_hosts) except in the case of <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/> which is tried as a last resort. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
