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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:18:47 +0100
From:      Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-developers@FreeBSD.org, x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Changes to bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <20130220121847.63b54ac18280771dde10521b@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <51242A7F.6060108@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <51242A7F.6060108@FreeBSD.org>

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Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Anyone have objections to this patch:
> 
> http://meatwad.mouf.net/~swills/sites.diff
> 
> (also attached).
> 
> In particular, the xorg list puts the xorg and freedesktop.org mirrors
> first, since the page here:
> 
> http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/Download
> 
> lists them as "Primary". Also, it strips out the ftp sites and sticks
> to http only, since I've heard some who consider ftp itself less than
> ideal and there are plenty of mirrors without it. Also, I looked at
> all the sites by hand and I removed a few that didn't seem to work at
> all and adjusted a few that needed "/pub/" added to the entry from
> the x.org list above.
> 
> This list does make things a bit more US centric, but it really didn't
> seem to make sense to have .hk and .br as the first two. But, making
> the list too long only makes it take longer to fall back to the
> FreeBSD.org mirror. This seemed like the best compromise to me, but I
> don't normally touch this file so I thought I'd get some feedback
> before committing. Comments and suggestions welcome!
> 
> Steve

No objection from my side. You can use ports-mgmt/distilator to check a
few port that use MASTER_SITE_RUBY and MASTER_SITE_XORG about the
consistency of the distfiles.

Emanuel




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