Date: 12 Jul 2000 13:03:15 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Add MASTER_SORT facility to our ports! Message-ID: <vqc1z0zce0s.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Ade Lovett's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:10:37 -0500" References: <86vgyinvtv.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000712111037.G283@FreeBSD.org>
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* From: Ade Lovett <ade@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.<projectname>.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). Well, I agree, but this seems like a simple enough solution to fix a lot of people's problems while not overly negatively affecting others. I'll put it in after a bit of testing, thanks. -PW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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