From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 04:57:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7DBC916A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:57:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3168243D48 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:57:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A5C54EC700E0; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:57:41 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7T4waOu054784; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j7T4wVdF054783; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: "Robert G." References: <43127FE1.5050007@adelphia.net> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:58:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: <43127FE1.5050007@adelphia.net> (Robert G.'s message of "Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:24:17 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I change which server to download ports from? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:57:45 -0000 "Robert G." writes: > I'm not talking about SUPFILE= in /etc/make.conf to change which CVS server I download all the ports, I'm talking about > when I download/install individual ports it seems to pick a random server. Sometimes the server is one in another > country, and I download a 30MB file at 5KB/sec which takes some time (I have 6.5Mbps). Is there an option to change > this to a server of my choice? MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk sounds like what you want (to use in your "make"). There's also a RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES, but I don't see it defined anywhere, so I suspect your servers were not as random as it seemed. Maybe look at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk too.