From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 24 07:59:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25447 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 07:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA25433 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 07:59:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA22040 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:46:55 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 24 Feb 97 18:46:55 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00576; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:32:30 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:32:25 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... In-Reply-To: <24067.856754707@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It occurs to me that maybe we should simply change our default logic > in the way the sites are traversed. Why not put ftp.freebsd.org FIRST > in the list, since we keep it the most faithfully up to date and don't > spam ourselves (too often) with new versions. We'd put the "origin" > sites after that as locations of last resort (or in cases of > legal/export restrictions). Fallback to ftp.freebsd.org clearly indicates error (old version not available or even deleted from master site) and you want to make this error as default case masking the real problem. I vote NO. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/