Re: port selfupdate, rsync, and tight firewalls

Johnathan,

No, we don't plan to change this in the very near term. Yes, we will  
be changing it somewhere in the mid-term, but I can't tell you to  
what it will be changed. There's some chance that we may move away  
from use of rsync altogether, toward a more http-only solution like  
subversion over http. Or that the rsync hostname will become:  
rsync.macports.org.

James


On Sep 5, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Johnathan Gifford wrote:

> With all the changes going on with the migration from DarwinPorts to
> MacPorts, is the rsync URL going to change when doing a selfupdate?
> Currently it is pointing to
> rsync://rsync.darwinports/org/dpupdate/dports.  I need to know.  The

Note, that should be:

	rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports

> company I work has a very, very tight firewall that blocks rsync, ftp,
> and a bunch of other stuff.    In order to get access to those  
> protocols
> I have to request each port to be opened.  On top of that, I also have
> to let the security folks know which server(s) or domain name(s) they
> can talk to so that access can also be restricted.  Hence, why I  
> need to
> know if the URL may change, especially the domain name.
>
> Argh....  Yes this bites, but it's better than finding each dependency
> for a piece of software and building by hand.
>
> ** Note to port software makers: Don't always list your ftp sites
> first, second and so on.  Try to putting an http site as the second
> location for the code source archive.  **
>
> Thanks,
>
> Johnathan
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