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On Fri 2008-02-22 (21:17), Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> You could host the INDEX file on a mirror running a webserver on a non
> standard port. Then you could add something like this
> to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
> 
> ENV['MASTER_SITE_INDEX'] = "http://your.index.mirror.tld:81/"

thanx

> Although adjusting the cache policy seems more reasonable to me.

agreed, if only the admins were reasonable ..