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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Subject: select nearest GNU mirror permanently?
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I'm just sitting here watching something come crawling in over the net 
from prep.ai.mit.edu.. If I had of caught it sooner, I'd have used a 
local (much faster) mirror, but now it's almost done.

What would be the chance of setting GNU_MIRROR somewhere 
(/etc/make.conf?  defaulted in bsd.port.mk?) 
and set  MASTER_SITES=	$(GNU_MIRROR) in the per-port makefiles that 
would otherwise pull stuff from prep.ai.mit.edu?

Or is there another mechanism to do this already?

Cheers,
-Peter