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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2002 15:58:53 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk
Message-ID:  <20020518155853.A93064@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020518182425.V12479-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0400
References:  <200205181847.g4IIld917658@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020518182425.V12479-100000@blues.jpj.net>

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On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> By listing sites in Brazil, Costa Rica, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, and
> South Africa, we made it possible for users there to fetch from within
> their own country rather than from North America, Japan, or Europe.  By
> setting MASTER_SORT or MASTER_SORT_REGEX in /etc/make.conf, users can
> cause a particular site to be checked first.  Pretend for a moment that
> you are Russian (break out the earmuffs if you have 'em), check out the
> old bsd.sites.mk, go into /usr/ports/whatever/p5-Module/ and do:
> 
> 	DISTDIR=`pwd` MASTER_SORT=".chg.ru .ru .su .ua" make fetch-list
> or
> 	setenv DISTDIR `pwd`
> 	setenv MASTER_SORT ".chg.ru .ru .su .ua"
> 	make fetch-list

Then work on a way that `make fetch' does not take 25 minutes on a
1.5Mbit link.

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