Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:30:03 +0200 From: Johan Kuuse <kuuse@redantigua.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails") Message-ID: <200905302130.04049.kuuse@redantigua.com> In-Reply-To: <20090530120022.7DB8A1065717@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090530120022.7DB8A1065717@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Message: 14 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:59:10 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Perone <lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net> > Subject: Re: cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel > KERNCONF=GENERIC fails") > To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> > Cc: stable@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4783D483-DA04-4363-8B40-BAA826F2B306@yellowspace.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 29.05.2009, at 13:06, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2009-May-27 00:42:52 +0200, Lorenzo Perone > > <lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net > > > > > wrote: > >> > >> On 27.05.2009, at 00:08, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >>> Ruben van Staveren wrote: > >>>> On 26 May 2009, at 22:38, Christian Walther wrote: > >>>>> it finished successfully. From my point of view it appears that > >>>>> cvsup.de.freebsd.org is out of sync. > >>>> > >>>> cvsup.de.freebsd.org is definitely out of sync. I had build errors > >>>> which only went away after switching to a different cvsup server > >>> > >>> Same here, a week ago. > >> > >> same here too... a few mins and hours ago. > >> with cvsup5.de.freebsd.org as well... > > > > This is a not-uncommon problem with lots of CVSup servers. edwin@ > > maintains a statistics page at > > http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/ that is worth studying - it > > shows that cvsup.de.freebsd.org is badly out of sync, though cvsup5 > > should be OK. > > cool work... I'd think of a small script to use that page > for wrapping csup and passing on the best and nearest available > mirror (for that of course, plain text/xml output would be > great)... :) > > in any case, at least a $FreeBSD$ tag check would be cool in csup: > sometimes it can have quite destructive consequences to get > an outdated source... > > Lorenzo Suggestions for a small script: Hack the Perl script sysutils/fastest_cvsup which currently uses a hard coded hash for %FREEBSD_SERVERS Instead, the script could parse http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/cvsup-stats-global.php and use only "green" servers for the %FREEBSD_SERVERS hash. Johan
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