From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 09:49:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EC016A41F for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:49:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46C5B43D48 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:49:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 25908 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2005 09:49:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 23 Jul 2005 09:49:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 21012 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jul 2005 09:49:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Jul 2005 09:49:15 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09416115FE; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:49:10 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:49:09 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: pav@FreeBSD.org 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GeoIP integration with Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:49:20 -0000 On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:11:05 +0200 Pav Lucistnik 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"