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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:23:15 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp (Jun Kuriyama)
Cc:        sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev), ports@FreeBSD.ORG (Ports Team)
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <200107231023.f6NANF464482@vega.vega.com>
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Jun Kuriyama" at Jul 23, 2001 07:11:05 PM

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> At Mon, 23 Jul 2001 02:17:42 -0700 (PDT),
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     Mk                   bsd.sites.mk 
> >   Log:
> >   - Remove Eazel's mirror of MASTER_SITE_GNOME - the company died quite some
> >     time ago. RIP
> >   - move http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net to the top of
> >     MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE - according to numerous perorts it much faster than
> >     ftp3.sourceforge.net, which currently heads the list.
> 
> How about removing *.sourceforge.net from non-sourceforge
> ${MASTER_SITE_*} ?
> 
> ${MASTER_SITE_{GNOME,GNU,KDE,MOZILLA,NETBSD,PERL_CPAN,SUNSITE} has
> many mirror sites other than *.sourceforge.net.  In other hand,
> *.sourceforge.net has many distfiles but full mirror of them are not
> many.  Current listing may cause load of *.sourceforge.net to high.
> 
> So I think we should reserve *.sourceforge.net for precious distfiles.

I don't think so. Frankly speaking it is not our problem if sourceforge
mirrors some popular files, which may cause load of *.sourceforge.net to
go high. Sourceforge admins should be intelligent enough to stop mirroring
those files and/or increase bandwith available.

-Maxim

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