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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:59:02 -0300
From:      Rainer Alves <rainer.alves@gmail.com>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Incredibly slow mirror site
Message-ID:  <45230756.8010604@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com>
References:  <4256BB8CAC97017A8BF293DE@utd59514.utdallas.edu>	<20061003225950.GA53790@icarus.home.lan> <4522F7C7.7090705@rogers.com>

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Mike Jakubik wrote:
> The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use 
> mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real 
> bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why 
> that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first?

Perhaps you should try using MASTER_SORT_REGEX and setting some mirror 
priorities... here's a good example (mirrors in my country are given top 
priority, followed by *.edu which usually have near infinite 
bandwidth... put this in /etc/make.conf):

MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=^file: \
         ://ftp.?\.br\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/ \
         mesh \
         ://[^/]*\.br[./] \
         ://ufpr\.dl\.sourceforge\.net/ \
         ://[^/]*\.edu[./]

--
Rainer Alves



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