From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 3 04:21:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA07729 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 04:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA07714 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 04:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from g.pet.cam.ac.uk [131.111.209.233] by lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xH5lr-00024X-00; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:19:47 +0100 Received: from g.pet.cam.ac.uk [127.0.0.1] by g.pet.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0xH5lp-0003ou-00; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:19:45 +0100 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automating use of FTP mirror sites In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:38:04 PDT." <22758.875813884@time.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 12:19:45 +0100 From: Gareth McCaughan Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I was discussing this just 4 or 5 months ago with someone else, during > our last big debate about whether or not ftp.freebsd.org should > automatically go first in the order based on the law of averages > (which says that you'll typically get it there first a lot faster than > you'll find it on some Timbuktoo master site, as is generally the > case). I definitely agree that, at the least, there should be some > sort of "hook" for doing on-the-fly transformation of FTP URLs. I think it's important to translate *sets* of URLs, not just individual ones. Otherwise you need another hook to eliminate duplicates... And Satoshi Asami wrote: > That is very interesting. The FreeBSD Project is very interested in > your script. :) OK. When I've cleaned it up enough that I'm happy for other people to read it, what should I do with it? Send it to -ports? (At present it's 157 lines long, about 1/3 of which is comments.) -- Gareth McCaughan