On Dec 22, 2010, at 20:41, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-12-23 11:20 , Marko Käning wrote:
>> 
>> it would be cool if one could somehow specify a local mirror. Since I am 
>> using more than only one MacPorts installation for testing purposes I'd love 
>> to have the ability to have a local mirror which would be accessed by all my 
>> different MacPorts installations prior to accessing some remote server. Does 
>> such an configuration option already exist? If not, I guess, it would be a 
>> great feature, don't you think?
> 
> Are you aware of the MASTER_SITE_LOCAL environment variable?

Nope, hadn't heard of it! Looks helpful, though I think my way is more 
flexible, as I can specify any number of local computers' URLs, and it 
downloads from whichever one is on and/or has the file.


> Personally I just run squid.

I've never looked into squid... How does that work / relate to serving 
distfiles, or how is it better than just having, say, apache running?


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