Still wondering why my distfiles have to come from so far away. I would create a more formal feature request but I can't access anything at MacOSForge.

Is there some way for the lists of mirrors to be associated with the user's timezone (gdate +%Z value) so that the load can be distributed around more evenly, users get distfiles faster, and mirror sites at the top of the list don't get pounded?

{prefix}/share/darwinports/resources/port1.0/fetch/mirror_sites.tcl

Actually for some of these, it could be done by hemisphere or continent ;-)

set portfetch::mirror_sites::sites(gnome) {

http://mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/GNOME/

http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/GNOME

http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/

http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/

http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/

http://ftp.linux.org.uk/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/

http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/X11/GNOME/