Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970223233831.12505J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <24067.856754707@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It occurs to me that maybe we should simply change our default logic > in the way the sites are traversed. Why not put ftp.freebsd.org FIRST > in the list, since we keep it the most faithfully up to date and don't > spam ourselves (too often) with new versions. We'd put the "origin" > sites after that as locations of last resort (or in cases of > legal/export restrictions). > > I think it would result in a much higher "hit rate" for ports with > most people. This might be a good default behavior... ...but having ports fall over is useful in its own strange way: it helps keep ports from getting stale. To this end, maybe there should be a special debugging fetch target that doesn't ever go to ftp.freebsd.org. A make fetch on the whole ports tree in this "debug" mode is run periodically, and email is automagically sent to the MAINTAINER if something is amiss. -john
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