From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 7 13:22:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F2610656BD for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: from sorbesgroup.com (mail.sorbesgroup.com [217.159.241.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4743D8FC4C for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sorbesgroup.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643183C528F4; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:32:44 +0300 (EEST) Received: from sorbesgroup.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sorbesgroup.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14528-10; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:32:43 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.0.80] (andrei [192.168.0.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sorbesgroup.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45FF3C528FC; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:32:42 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <49DB4E1F.3070407@bsd.ee> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:59:11 +0300 From: Andrei Kolu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eggert , stable@freebsd.org References: <200904071121.n37BLhbY007253@fire.js.berklix.net> <24269939-A622-44A6-9F9C-F816E03BE31F@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <24269939-A622-44A6-9F9C-F816E03BE31F@nokia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localhost Cc: Subject: Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:23:02 -0000 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