Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:22:04 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports - ignore hosts that aren't responding? Message-ID: <200412311822.05205.reso3w83@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <E93CA076-5B9A-11D9-A9DC-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> References: <E93CA076-5B9A-11D9-A9DC-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
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On Friday 31 December 2004 06:14 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: > I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the > past several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout. Here's one > example: > > => Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. > fetch: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2: > Operation timed out > > => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. > fetch: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2: > Operation timed out > > => Attempting to fetch from > http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/coreutils/. fetch: > http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2: > Operation timed out > > => Attempting to fetch from http://gnu.mirror.mcgill.ca/coreutils/. > > Is there a way I can tell 'make' to (at least temporarily) not even > try to connect to the first 3? > > TjL Probably there is a better solution but I've had good results by adding: RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES=yes to /etc/make.conf -Mike
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