On Aug 29, 2025, at 11:01, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote: > > What is the problem with just going back to rsync and hosting the > uncompressed port tree? Then only the changed files would be downloaded for > port sync. You could also offer a complete tarball available as an > alternative, for new installs and full rebuilds. I feel like I am missing > something here.
We switched to using a tarball so that its integrity could be verified with a signature. https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/476e4e15ff52ed1582cafa5d4be0476a6c05a5c1
