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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:47:06 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Here's a radical idea...
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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