Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:21:43 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports Message-ID: <200904071121.n37BLhbY007253@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi stable@ people, Idea for a SOC or other development: Not all ftp sites carry betas (understandably), that raises an inefficiency of human & net resources also seen similarly on ports/ , eg: I tried to download 7.2-BETA to test, Not on local ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 Found manually on ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 but slow at 60 KB/s Faster @ 100K from USA ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 but I'd feel guilty loading main site & intercontinental band width. One could rustle up a ports/ entry to fetch ISO-IMAGES automatically from a list of nearest local national sites, using MASTER_SITE_BACKUP &/or MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, But does a pseudo port or tool exist already ? Choosing ftp site just by country is crude, (albeit better than global as once was), but if client is near national border, another country's adjacent city might be a nearer & faster server. Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might be nearer &/or faster. Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) : Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary README, & automatically decide where to fetch from. & as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server connection gets too bad. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org
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