<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Perhaps, but the first thing I usually do before installing or upgrading anything is a 'selfupdate', which would succeed, using the mirror. The next command - 'port install' or whatever - would then time out, because it would have reverted to using the failed server.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let's call it a "misfeature" instead of a "bug", then.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-^-rdj-^-</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Carlo Tambuatco <<a href="mailto:oraclmaster@gmail.com" class="">oraclmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">You might not consider it a fault depending on how long the main site is down. It might save you the trouble of having to revert it back later. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Dan Johnson <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rdj999@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">rdj999@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">See this:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://rdj999.blogspot.com/2014/11/eek-macports-is-down.html" target="_blank" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>http://rdj999.blogspot.com/2014/11/eek-macports-is-down.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found that after making a mirror the default, 'port -d selfupdate' <i class="">restored</i> '<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/" target="_blank" class="">rsync.macports.org</a>' as the default, so I had to re-edit 'sources.conf' to undo that "helpful fix" before I could continue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's probably a MacPorts bug. Someone should report it. ;)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-^-rdj-^-</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">...</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>