You will be using the mirror until you revert your changes. I would restore
the default configuration so you don't get caught mistakenly thinking that
'rsync.macports.org' is down when it's your mirror that went down!
On the contrary, you should be using
a mirror close to you for regular
On 26/11/2014, at 3:35 AM, Michael wrote:
Good luck with that (in Australia). BigPond is the biggest ISP in Oz and
is owned by Telstra, which owns the entire physical network and all the
exchanges, though that is slowly changing. Their treatment of other ISPs,
who share the physical network,
Yesterday, a port -d selfupdate revealed that 'rsync.macports.org' was down.
It remained down for many hours. Despite mirroring, that's evidently an
Achilles' Heel in the default configuration's mechanism. I found a way around
it, and it wasn't obvious, requiring temporary modifications to both
Does this fix still allow port selfupdate to work once rsync.macports.org
is up again? Or do you need to reverse the changes?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dan Johnson rdj...@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday, a port -d selfupdate revealed that 'rsync.macports.org' was
down. It remained down for
You will be using the mirror until you revert your changes. I would restore the
default configuration so you don't get caught mistakenly thinking that
'rsync.macports.org http://rsync.macports.org/' is down when it's your mirror
that went down!
-^-rdj-^-
On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Carlo
On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Dan Johnson rdj...@gmail.com wrote:
You will be using the mirror until you revert your changes. I would restore
the default configuration so you don't get caught mistakenly thinking that
'rsync.macports.org' is down when it's your mirror that went down!
There's
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
There's no particular reason to stick with the primary MacPorts
servers, if you find a mirror that works better for you. I'm not aware
of problems with any of the mirrors. If you're not in North America, you
might even benefit from switching
On 25/11/2014, at 10:11 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:
- On 24 Nov, 2014, at 22:17, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote:
A minor problem with FreeBSD is that should an ISP-assigned DNS server
report an error, said ISP helpfully redirects you elsewhere, but luckily
FreeBSD handles this stupidity
On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
There's no particular reason to stick with the primary MacPorts
servers, if you find a mirror that works better for you. I'm not aware
of problems with any of the mirrors. If you're not in
