Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:34:41 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <1142980481.83239.1.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju> References: <200603211540.k2LFeQ4T055581@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060321164420.GA16788@xor.obsecurity.org> <44202EA9.40603@FreeBSD.org> <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis píše v st 22. 03. 2006 v 09:18 +1100:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49:45PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > Em 21/3/2006 13:44 Kris Kennaway escreveu:
> > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:40:26PM +0000, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > >> garga 2006-03-21 15:40:26 UTC
> > >>
> > >> FreeBSD ports repository
> > >>
> > >> Modified files:
> > >> Mk bsd.sites.mk
> > >> Log:
> > >> be able to define favourite sourceforge download site just defining
> > >>
> > >> MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_PREFERED=xxx
> > >>
> > >> on /etc/make.conf
> > >>
> > >> PR: ports/94661
> > >> Submitted by: edwin
> > >
> > > :(
> > >
> > > We already have facilities for sorting.
> >
> > Simon sent me an email after my commit, until it I didn't know
> > MASTER_SORT facility. Now i agree with simon, it's a redundancy.
>
> I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage
> is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not
> documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution
> which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea
> how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even
> I use it now.
Not that I consider heanet slow, I'm regularly doing >1000 kB/s
transfers from them, but, would a better solution for everyone to
reorder Sourceforge mirrors to have a globally fast one first?
And while at it, can we please have first PHP not be brazilian?
That one is really slow outside South America.
--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Nazgul have poisoned your lembas.
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