Date: 18 Nov 1998 18:35:17 +0100 From: Oyvind Moll <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles Message-ID: <dslyap8rjje.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981117072633.asmodai.1@wxs.nl> References: <199811170400.UAA04950@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <XFMail.981117072633.asmodai.1@wxs.nl>
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* Jeroen Ruigrok | | On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: | | > (1) Find backup sites on different continents. Having five sites in | > Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down. | | ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no I thought about this a few months ago. It would be really nice if ftpsearch was queried at the time of distfile retrieval. Considering that ftpsearch offers (crude?) sorting by distance to host as well as limiting to specific domains, it could automate fetching distfiles from nearby sites. Is this doable; dynamically finding a distsite through a search engine? It might have to involve getting an MD5 hash from ftpsearch to ensure that it's the right file, but perhaps that is already in there. The main author of ftpsearch (now ftpsearch.lycos.com, btw) -- Tor Egge -- is a FreeBSD guy, as you might know, so getting some info on how to do this effectively and robustly should be doable. He might not resist being coaxed into storing MD5s for distfiles, if they're not already there. Am I talking nonsense? -- Øyvind Møll oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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