Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:51:03 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap portsnap.sh Message-ID: <20060504055103.GC8357@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <200605032129.k43LT11c062338@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200605032129.k43LT11c062338@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:29:01PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
+> cperciva 2006-05-03 21:29:01 UTC
+>
+> FreeBSD src repository
+>
+> Modified files:
+> usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap portsnap.sh
+> Log:
+> The approach portsnap uses of "pick a random HTTP mirror" doesn't
+> interact very nicely with HTTP proxies: Since proxies do not know
+> that all the files on portsnap1.freebsd.org are identical to the
+> files with the same names on portsnap2.freebsd.org, said proxies end
+> up downloading and storing files in duplicate.
+>
+> This commit uses the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, if set, to
+> generate a random number seed for use in selecting a mirror. This
+> means that if several systems all have the same HTTP_PROXY value set,
+> they will ask the proxy to fetch files from the same mirror (unless
+> that mirror fails, in which case all the systems will use the same
+> second choice, et cetera).
+>
+> Portsnap still doesn't interact very well with "transparent" HTTP
+> proxies, but there's nothing I can do about those.
[...]
+> +# Generate a random seed for use in picking mirrors. If HTTP_PROXY
+> +# is set, this will be used to generate the seed; otherwise, the seed
+> +# will be random.
+> + if [ -z "${HTTP_PROXY}" ]; then
I think you wanted -n instead of -z here.
+> + RANDVALUE=`sha256 -qs "${HTTP_PROXY}" |
+> + tr -d 'a-f' |
+> + cut -c 1-9`
+> + else
+> + RANDVALUE=`jot -r 1 0 999999999`
+> + fi
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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