On Apr 20, 2007, at 15:56, paul beard wrote:

For some reason, all my distfiles are coming from Lyon, France: seems a long way. I don't see any .conf or man page references to mirror configuration.

Define "all my distfiles." Which ports specifically? Each port is configured with the list of sites from which a port can be downloaded, except for some common repositories like sourceforge for which a central list is maintained. For sourceforge, I believe it's supposed to use a script at sourceforge to find a mirror near you. Where are you actually located?

Most likely all the ports you installed/looked at were gnome-related, therefore making use of the 'gnome' mirror group, the first entry of which is http://mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/ . You can see (or even modify) the mirror groups at /opt/local/share/darwinports/resources/port1.0/fetch/ mirror_sites.tcl . (assuming your prefix is /opt/local, which is the default) Regards, Elias Pipping On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:35 PM, paul beard wrote:

On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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Define "all my distfiles." Which ports specifically? Each port is configured with the list of sites from which a port can be downloaded, except for some common repositories like sourceforge for which a central list is maintained. For sourceforge, I believe it's supposed to use a script at sourceforge to find a mirror near you.

Where are you actually located?

well, here is an example: everything seems to come from here:

Attempting to fetch pango-1.16.3.tar.bz2 from http:// mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/sources/pango/1.16

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On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Elias Pipping wrote:

Most likely all the ports you installed/looked at were gnome-related, therefore making use of the 'gnome' mirror group,

Is there a way to tweak this at install time, so we can choose closer mirrors? the file is commented that it should be sorted, but it would be nice to have some load-balancing/distance-shortening in there.