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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:22:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Oyvind Moll <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no>, FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: distfiles
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981118192258.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <dslyap8rjje.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no>

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Hejsa Oyvind...

On 18-Nov-98 Oyvind Moll wrote:
> * Jeroen Ruigrok
>|
>| On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote:
>|
>| > (1) Find backup sites on different continents.  Having five sites in
>| >     Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down.
>| 
>| ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no

> I thought about this a few months ago.  It would be really nice if
> ftpsearch was queried at the time of distfile retrieval.  Considering
> that ftpsearch offers (crude?)  sorting by distance to host as well as
> limiting to specific domains, it could automate fetching distfiles
> from nearby sites.

Good idea IMO. As the problem we now are facing is that most packages are
dynamically floating around from ftpsite to ftpsite. (PITA ;)
 
> Is this doable; dynamically finding a distsite through a search
> engine?  It might have to involve getting an MD5 hash from ftpsearch
> to ensure that it's the right file, but perhaps that is already in
> there.

MD5 checksums oughtta be the same for a given file no matter where taken from.
So why should FTPSearch provide the MD5 hash?

> The main author of ftpsearch (now ftpsearch.lycos.com, btw) -- Tor
> Egge -- is a FreeBSD guy, as you might know, so getting some info on
> how to do this effectively and robustly should be doable.  He might
> not resist being coaxed into storing MD5s for distfiles, if they're
> not already there.

Well, he might be interested in promoting FreeBSD by means of stats for the
site? Just like wcarchive.cdrom.com. (CC: to advocacy =)

The thing I am wondering about is the fact how we are going to parse the
results back to the client and how to provide a means of selecting the
distsites. Heh, might even mean another of out (in?)famous native utilities =)

Thoughts?

> Am I talking nonsense?

No, english ;)

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