From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 30 12:56:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD85E37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from white.dogwood.com (white.dogwood.com [63.96.228.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AAFF43F79 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@dogwood.com) Received: from white.dogwood.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by white.dogwood.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0UKu9SC073939; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@white.dogwood.com) Received: (from dave@localhost) by white.dogwood.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UKu57g073938; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Cornejo Message-Id: <200301302056.h0UKu57g073938@white.dogwood.com> Subject: Re: Fetching distfiles from mirrors by default In-Reply-To: <20030130111432.74b67505.temperanza@softhome.net> To: La Temperanza Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use this in make.conf MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://freebsd.cisco.com/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ to get stuff off an internal mirror There are probably better ways to do it, but this has worked for me. dave c you wrote: > Hello, > > I seem remember 4.7 had an option in /etc/make.conf to prefer > downloading from mirror sites (or sites matching a regex) by default. Is > there anything similar to this available in CURRENT without having to > rearrange (and most likely refuse) bsd.sites.mk? > > Hmm.. using a shell script to ping and sort the file after each cvsup > might be sort of cool, but probably more trouble then it's worth. It's > only for those occasional huge distfiles where it really matters > (currently, the 77M games/vegastrike snatched from a PR.) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Dave Cornejo @ Dogwood Media, Fremont, California (also dcornejo@ieee.org) "There aren't any monkeys chasing us..." - Xochi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message