On 2010-12-23 14:40 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > 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.
You can put multiple URLs in MASTER_SITE_LOCAL (space separated). >> 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? Squid is a caching proxy. Distfiles downloaded by macports are cached like anything else. The only setup needed is to tell each machine to use the proxy in System Preferences. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
