#28054: Unable to select mirror for downloading distfiles -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: markjfe@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.9.2 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- I live in Hong Kong and when downloading GNU distfiles port will select ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp as the mirror. However the download rates for this mirror are very slow (~30kbps) from Hong Kong. A much faster mirror is the AARNet mirror in Brisbane Australia. There seems to be no way to force port to use a particular mirror when downloading distfiles. Setting MASTER_SITE_LOCAL has no impact. Altering sources.conf also has no impact. As a workaround I have removed ftp.dti.ad.jp from mirrors.tcl and port is currently selecting the AARNet mirror as I prefer. However this mirrors.tcl file will be overwritten the next time port selfupdate is run. I would like to suggest that there should be a way to override the selected mirror with a preferred mirror. Either as a command-line option or an option in a configuration file. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28054> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS