From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 14:15:43 2003 Return-Path: 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 B4B6237B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-115-75-172.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.75.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC58543FE9 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (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 A6F9866BE5; Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C9C11576; Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:40 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kevin Golding Message-ID: <20030511211540.GF60185@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limit on number of MASTER_SITES? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:15:44 -0000 --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Kevin Golding wrote: > I was looking at the MASTER_SITES of a port and realised that the > website offers up 45 mirrors that can be used (although not all are up > to date). I was wondering if there's an accepted limit to how many > should be used? >=20 > So far I've got about a dozen which has let me select one or two options > from each geographic region. Should I fill in the rest for > completeness? 45 would probably be overkill. 10 should be more than enough. Kris --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+vr18Wry0BWjoQKURAsByAJ497vXGZJbajcXmU3QIzM3ctyzjcgCgiXpK aca3BkzQh/I36qqWq3T72Qc= =48TW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy--