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From: Dima Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>
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Subject: Suggestion about MASTER_SITES
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Hello!

I just want to suggest one new thing about MASTER_SITES variable.
Namely, many countries have ftp.??.freebsd.org mirrors. And very often
it would be better to try to fetch distrubition tarball from
ftp.??.freebsd.org mirror (from ...../distfiles directory) and then,
if either such a mirror or a file doesn't exist, try to follow the
current behavior. This can save a lot of time when building a new
port without changing Makefile of the port.

--Dima

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