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Date:      Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:52:42 -0400
From:      Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Cc:        David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup servers down
Message-ID:  <4DE7879A.1010406@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1307017179.1882.5.camel@xenon>
References:  <4DE77DA7.2080802@gmail.com> <1307017179.1882.5.camel@xenon>

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On 6/2/11 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:10 +0200, David Demelier wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It is more likely than the cvsup servers are done for 2 weeks now and 
>> nobody complains about it. I usually use csup to fetch the ports tree 
>> but it seems I am the only one to do this :-p.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> 
> Well you're definitely not the only one :)
> (Like, hell, is there any other option?)
> 
> Still, when such things happen, I just move up/down a digit (to cvsup3.,
> cvsup4., cvsup5., etc) without so much complaining, you know - unless
> one definitely runs out of numbers...
> 
> m.
> 

It's also handy to use fastest_cvsup
(http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fastest_cvsup), and then you'll
always get the best choice of server:

$ fastest_cvsup -Q -c us,ca,mx
cvsup14.us.freebsd.org
$

Hope that helps,
Greg
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