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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:38:06 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <20000620163806.F32776@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006201507.LAA34568@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:07:25AM -0400
References:  <200006200648.XAA21323@freefall.freebsd.org> <200006201507.LAA34568@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:07:25AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> Probably this should be completely redone to provide for a generic
> ``pick your preferred mirror location'' instead.

It'd be nice if we could provide some sort of mechanism for preferred
mirrors, but other than MASTER_SITE_* vars in make.conf, we can't.

So I just mixed the MASTER_SITE_* insertions, with preference to fast
North American sites.

> BTW, ftp5.freebsd.org mirrors three of those, and rpmfind.net is
> located in the same room.

Very interesting indeed.  :->

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