Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:43:49 -0800 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports? Message-ID: <20091223174349.GB42405@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <4B325579.5060106@strauser.com> References: <4B325579.5060106@strauser.com>
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I don't know about blacklisting, however you may want to look at the port called fastest_sites: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/fastest_sites]$ cat pkg-descr Find the fastest mirror for every mirror list in bsd.sites.mk. Output is suitable for inclusion into make.conf. WWW: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/freebsd-ports-master-sites-sorting.html -jgh On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:38:01AM -0600, Kirk Strauser thus spake: >in ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, the list of SourceForge mirrors is defined by: > >.for mirror in heanet sunet iweb switch surfnet kent freefr \ > voxel jaist osdn nchc transact softlayer \ > internode biznetnetworks ufpr ># garr dfn ovh (redirect as of 2009-Sep-02) >MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE+= \ > http://${mirror}.dl.sourceforge.net/project/%SUBDIR%/ >.endfor >.endif > >The problem is that the first mirror, heanet, is glacially slow every >time I try to download from it. Transfers of 5-10KB/s aren't unheard >of. When I see that a large tarball is coming down from heanet, I'll >routinely kill the transfer and manually download it. > >In my /etc/make.conf, I have: > >MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/ > >That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case >the fetch goes back to using the list of mirrors, starting with heanet, >which puts me back in the same predicament. > >I could obviously edit bsd.sites.mk to remove that entry, but updates >could wipe out my changes. Worse, if the SF layout changes and >bsd.sites.mk is updated to reflect the new structure, a locally edited >version wouldn't have those fixes. > >All that said, is there a better way to specify SourceForge mirrors? A >blacklist would be ideal for this specific situation, but I'm open to ideas. > >-- >Kirk Strauser > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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