On Monday, August 17, 2015, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Aug 17, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Michael David Crawford wrote:<br>
Yes, you can change what servers MacPorts uses:<br>
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<a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors" target="_blank">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors</a><br>
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If you can set up an rsync server on your network, and that server can connect to our master server via rsync to mirror its contents, then that could work.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The people who maintain the firewall or would set up the server may not have a clue about the Macintosh, let alone MacPorts.</div><div><br></div><div>The required managerial sign-off may not have a clue about computers of any sort. I have even seen this at Apple and Microsoft. You could facilitate their sign-off by providing a PDF with an executive summart; MacPorts fans could send them via Internal snail mail to corporate.</div><div><br></div><div>Thine In Eternal Torment,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div> 53n7 fr0m my 1p4d. </div><br><br>-- <br>Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer<br><a href="mailto:mdcrawford@gmail.com">mdcrawford@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.warplife.com/mdc/">http://www.warplife.com/mdc/</a><br><br> Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future<br> Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past.<br><br>