Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:42:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads... Message-ID: <20030209213619.I866@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> In-Reply-To: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> I've got a few ideas for randomizing load for a given geographic
> region (Europe, Asia, Affrica, and the US being the 4 biggies:
I'd like to steal part of your thread for an idea that I've been kicking
around. I think it would be useful to allow a user to specify something
like PORTS_DOWNLOAD_REGION in /etc/make.conf, and have bsd.sites.mk make
reasonable decisions about which set of servers to use first based on
that. I think your choices of regions is a good one. The code to do this
is pretty easy to conceive, but if you need a proof of concept let me
know.
Doug
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