Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:56:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: La Temperanza <temperanza@softhome.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetching distfiles from mirrors by default Message-ID: <200301302056.h0UKu57g073938@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <20030130111432.74b67505.temperanza@softhome.net>
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I use this in make.conf MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://freebsd.cisco.com/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ to get stuff off an internal mirror There are probably better ways to do it, but this has worked for me. dave c you wrote: > Hello, > > I seem remember 4.7 had an option in /etc/make.conf to prefer > downloading from mirror sites (or sites matching a regex) by default. Is > there anything similar to this available in CURRENT without having to > rearrange (and most likely refuse) bsd.sites.mk? > > Hmm.. using a shell script to ping and sort the file after each cvsup > might be sort of cool, but probably more trouble then it's worth. It's > only for those occasional huge distfiles where it really matters > (currently, the 77M games/vegastrike snatched from a PR.) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Dave Cornejo @ Dogwood Media, Fremont, California (also dcornejo@ieee.org) "There aren't any monkeys chasing us..." - Xochi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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