I've begun experimenting with hosting a distfile mirror on Mac OS Forge for MacPorts. This is very much a beta service, so it wont be automatically used by MacPorts just yet. But if you have trouble fetching a distfile, the checksums fail repeatedly, or you need an old distfile, you might try looking here:

http://distfiles.macports.org/<portname>/

Disclaimer: this service is experimental, it may not be available all of the time, it may not contain all distfiles, I will probably rearrange the files later, it may not always be up to date with the portfiles in the svn repo, etc etc.

Also, there may be some ports out there that forbid mirroring of their distfiles. If you know of such a port, you can email me directly with the port name so it can be excluded from mirroring.


Thanks

-Bill

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