[84270] trunk/dports/devel/byacc/Portfile

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> I think I asked before, but could we just set up a proxy so that the distfile mirror can get ftp hosted files?
> 
> Sure. This would obviously have to be on a network other than Apple's,
> so someone would have to volunteer to host it. Then it would just be a
> matter of setting proxy_ftp in the macports.conf used by the mirror job.

Does anyone have experience setting up a proxy like this? I have a host I can put it on. It looks like apache2 with mod_proxy_ftp can do it (although all the examples I've seen online are for reverse proxy and not forward proxy configs).

I can look at it when I get some spare time if no one else has done it before ;-)

>> or, if we can fetch with ftp from one of the non-apple supplied mirrors (I think they exist), can't we just have the main distfiles mirror pull those distfiles from them?
> 
> That's what happened in the past with the trd.no mirror (which has been
> down for a long time but is still planned to make a comeback). All the
> other mirrors just rsync from the primary one.


How much space does the mirror take now? It might be simpler for me to just run a mirror...

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