Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:35:55 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: rofug@rofug.ro Subject: Re: [RFC] suport for fetching from local mirrors Message-ID: <20040310183555.GC14892@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040310190422.43ac46c9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20040310190422.43ac46c9@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:04:22PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
>=20
> I wonder if there is any way to convince globally ``make fetch'' to try
> use first other site that those in bsd.sites.mk (not with
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, but overriding the master sites individually).
>=20
>=20
> The reason for this (at least for .ro) is:
>=20
> 1. the vast majority of the sites (apache, oo, *linux) have MAN mirrors
> 2. many of them only partially mirror the master site
> 3. or have a slightly different directory structure
>=20
> This sites could be added to bsd.sites.mk, but:
> 4. because of 2. and 3. above it would be a great idea
> 5 and the majority of mirrors admins wouldn't like abroad downloaders as
> the international bandwidth costs are very big . (10 to 50 compared to
> us for example)
>=20
> The benefits would be:
> 6. unloading master sites and internet=20
> 7. faster download speed for users (and on large distfiles, like OO,
> kde, etc. this would make a big difference esp. for "home" users with
> low speed internet access).
>=20
> This can be easily achieved by including a ``bsd.local_sites.mk'' in
> bsd.ports.mk above line 2158 where bsd.sites.mk is included.
> Something like:
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> # Local (MAN) master sites
> .if exists(${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.local_sites.mk)
> .include "${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.local_sites.mk"
> .endif
>=20
> The user will be responsible for creating and populating the file.
My first thought was that this was overkill, but upon further
reflection, I like it. I'm working toward doing most updates on systems
at work via read-only nfs access to checked out copies of the ports
tree, and this would let me eliminate about half of the /etc/make.conf
configuration I use by having the ports collection contain the files
that redirect to our local mirrors.
> Eventually an option for make.conf could be added, like:
> LOCAL_FETCH_SITES=3D cc
> where cc would be the country code.=20
>=20
> # Local (MAN) master sites
> .if defined(LOCAL_FETCH_SITES)
> .if exists(${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.sites_${LOCAL_FETCH_SITES}.mk)
> .include "${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.sites_${LOCAL_FETCH_SITES}.mk"
> .endif
> .endif
>=20
> The _cc files could be maintained by local user groups or something (I
> would volunteer for _ro).
This seems like a reasonable idea to me.
-- Brooks
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