Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:59:11 +0300 From: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> To: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports Message-ID: <49DB4E1F.3070407@bsd.ee> In-Reply-To: <24269939-A622-44A6-9F9C-F816E03BE31F@nokia.com> References: <200904071121.n37BLhbY007253@fire.js.berklix.net> <24269939-A622-44A6-9F9C-F816E03BE31F@nokia.com>
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Lars Eggert wrote: > On 2009-4-7, at 14:21, Julian Stacey wrote: >> Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to >> fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human >> time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) : >> Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where >> stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary >> README, & automatically decide where to fetch from. >> & as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server >> connection gets too bad. > > Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm > half serious. > > Lars What about this: # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup && make install clean && rehash # fastest_cvsup -c us,ee,ru,eu,uk,de,no,se
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