From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 12 9:10:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from coredump.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBCB37BEFE; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by coredump.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CP5q-0003xL-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:10:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:10:37 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA Cc: asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Add MASTER_SORT facility to our ports! Message-ID: <20000712111037.G283@FreeBSD.org> References: <86vgyinvtv.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <86vgyinvtv.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@idaemons.org on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:17:16PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:17:16PM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: > Here's the patch that adds master sites sorting facility into our > ports system. I obtained it from NetBSD pkgsrc, to port to our ports > with a trivial fixes. I certainly like the concept, though I'm not sure that this particular solution buys us a great deal. First we had a whole bunch of www..org web/ftp sites appear, now we have things like Sourceforge and Linuxberg with large sets of mirrors (not to mention the GNU, XFree86 and other "big" mirror sets), generally with FQDNs that wouldn't easily map into a MASTER_SORT="..." list, except in a few very specific cases (Japan and Australia fall into this list by virtue of having geographically-local - ie: no international link required - mirrors, that are only accessible to other sites in that country). Just for the record, I'm not dismissing the idea since it doesn't really matter to us US-based folks.. just that I think the concept of finding the "best" site is non-trivial. If the problem can be solved, then it would have far-reaching consequences elsewhere (like cvsup servers for example). -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message