Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:49:09 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GeoIP integration with Ports Message-ID: <20050723124909.00f76b04@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <1122070265.20954.5.camel@hood.oook.cz> References: <1122070265.20954.5.camel@hood.oook.cz>
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:11:05 +0200 Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Heya, > > I knocked together a rather simple script which resorts download > locations according to their geographical distance from your computer, > using GeoIP. You will always download the distfile from the nearest > mirror now. > > It's more of a demonstration than practical thing, since the nearest > mirror is not always the fastest one, and the needed database of > locations is commercial. > > Who's interested in the idea, feel free to check out > > http://www.oook.cz/bsd/geoip-ports.html > > Comments welcomed. Ex-eik's@ devel/portmk has, among other things this feature and a more interesting one based on net/fping; with the latest the fetch time is 0.3-0.5 lower. Unfortunately the port is out-of-sync with the bsd.*.mk and some ports are broken if using it. Optimising distfiles fetching is on my to do list, but I'm terribly lacking the time tight now (and in the last 2 months). Please keep me posted on this subject. Thanks, -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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