From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 9 22:34:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D6837B401; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-52-61.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.52.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C4A43FFB; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A0D67B88; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 215ACF78; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:34:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:34:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Barton Cc: Sean Chittenden , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads... Message-ID: <20030210063435.GA20880@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030209213619.I866@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030209213619.I866@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:42:03PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: >=20 > > I've got a few ideas for randomizing load for a given geographic > > region (Europe, Asia, Affrica, and the US being the 4 biggies: >=20 > 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. This is a good idea, but I think we should keep the two things separate so they don't get extended to the point where no-one implements them Kris --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+R0f6Wry0BWjoQKURAhGtAKDdPEmZwXP9/FB9mO6c1qc8Y/vFtACeMt8N tJvS7FOhlpOXEVZWqqwXoO8= =HfOI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message