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How to change the mirror of macports

I'm a newbie to OS X, and totally confused about the way macports works.

My question is, how to change the mirror or the sites where macports download the portfiles and distfiles.

The mirror I'm trying to use: http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/macports/

Should I change the sources.conf? But this mirror has no rsync protocol(I'm not really clear about what rsync protocol is >_<).

Or should I configure the macports.conf?

I know about the macports offical guide, but I'm not smart enough to figure this out.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks.

Solution

  • As per the documentation: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors

    The URL used to get Portfiles is set in ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf

    If you are new to OS X and/or MacPorts, please consider reading the introductory guide: http://guide.macports.org/