From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 24 13:31:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20178 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (0@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20154 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21787; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:31:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA09995; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:33:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:33:02 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id NAA20172 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote: > 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. The handbook's guide mentions that someone is planning to add support for auto-determination of the nearest ftp site. Perhaps it would be better to add this support rather than try working around the problem of bad ftp sites. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk