Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:32:25 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970224183048.529B-100000@nagual.ru> In-Reply-To: <24067.856754707@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It occurs to me that maybe we should simply change our default logic > in the way the sites are traversed. Why not put ftp.freebsd.org FIRST > in the list, since we keep it the most faithfully up to date and don't > spam ourselves (too often) with new versions. We'd put the "origin" > sites after that as locations of last resort (or in cases of > legal/export restrictions). Fallback to ftp.freebsd.org clearly indicates error (old version not available or even deleted from master site) and you want to make this error as default case masking the real problem. I vote NO. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@null.net> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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