Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 12:19:45 +0100 From: Gareth McCaughan <gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automating use of FTP mirror sites Message-ID: <E0xH5lp-0003ou-00@g.pet.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:38:04 PDT." <22758.875813884@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I was discussing this just 4 or 5 months ago with someone else, during > our last big debate about whether or not ftp.freebsd.org should > automatically go first in the order based on the law of averages > (which says that you'll typically get it there first a lot faster than > you'll find it on some Timbuktoo master site, as is generally the > case). I definitely agree that, at the least, there should be some > sort of "hook" for doing on-the-fly transformation of FTP URLs. I think it's important to translate *sets* of URLs, not just individual ones. Otherwise you need another hook to eliminate duplicates... And Satoshi Asami wrote: > That is very interesting. The FreeBSD Project is very interested in > your script. :) OK. When I've cleaned it up enough that I'm happy for other people to read it, what should I do with it? Send it to -ports? (At present it's 157 lines long, about 1/3 of which is comments.) -- Gareth McCaughan
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