Re: port mirrors

2012-09-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
Chris Jones wrote: On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:45pm, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:35, Chris Jones wrote: Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with themse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it. Could

port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. For the last week or ten days or so http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org has been extremely unresponsive; virtually always reaches its sixty second time-out just now didn't even get that far I invariably end up get the tarballs from

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, Just to add I have seen exactly the same thing, and a few times contemplated sending a mail like this. I'm also in the UK and have no issues with bandwidth to other mirrors. Chris On 18/09/12 13:55, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. For the last week or ten days or so

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Clemens Lang
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
Phil Dobbin wrote: 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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com wrote: Or maybe it's just been re-set after the last successful (just now) `selfupdate`? No, scrub that idea, I've just checked the time stamp on it (06/09/12). Timestamp may not prove anything; it may now be the timestamp

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with the mse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it. Could someone with the contact information follow this up ? Chris On 18/09/12 15:32, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Phil

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
Chris Jones wrote: Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with the mse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it. Could someone with the contact information follow this up ? Chris On 18/09/12 15:32, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Tue, Sep 18,

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:35, Chris Jones wrote: Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with themse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it. Could someone with the contact information follow this up ? The contact information is shown here:

Re: port mirrors

2012-09-18 Thread Chris Jones
On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:45pm, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:35, Chris Jones wrote: Surely a better solution here is to figure out what is the issue with themse.uk server, and fix that, rather than try and work around it. Could someone with the