It is perfectly possible to do that, and I do it on every machine < 10.9
Please see <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516#comment:19> I should write this up as a wiki page. Ken On 2017-10-03, at 8:22 AM, db wrote: > I'm getting the error below when fetching from pypi. Can I force use of MP's > curl instead of OS X (10.8)'s? > > ---> Attempting to fetch cffi-1.11.0.tar.gz from > https://distfiles.macports.org/py-cffi > DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: The requested URL returned error: 404 > ---> Attempting to fetch cffi-1.11.0.tar.gz from > https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/c/cffi > DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: error:1407742E:SSL > routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
