From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 7 21:17:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D3416A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:17:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (rrcs-se-24-73-171-238.biz.rr.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470D143D1F for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:17:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id 0759636A; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:17:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 50EEB135; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:16:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:16:51 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Message-ID: <20040807211651.GB21477@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org References: <20040806012425.Y99504@prime.gushi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040806012425.Y99504@prime.gushi.org> X-WWW-Site: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-PGP-Public-Key: $X-WWW-Site/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Home-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Home-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Home-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Home-Address3: United States of America X-Good-Question-Guide: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Netiquette-Guidelines: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:17:30 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004-08-06T01:28:04-0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I was contemplating banging together a quick script to find the fastest= =20 > CVS mirrors which essentially tries to retrieve a small distribution from= =20 > all the available CVS servers. Does this seem like the type of thing tha= t=20 > would be well-recieved into the base-distro or ports? Or would it simply= =20 > be seen as putting extra load on the CVS servers? Have you looked into /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup yet? --=20 Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=3D&%C=3D\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E