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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:03:41 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bsd.sites.mk: Do we prefer http or https (or both)
Message-ID:  <21738FEF-3F75-4814-ACCB-DE197B677C6E@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1703111841270.3498@anthias.pfeifer.com>
References:  <20170311121851.715B55859@freefall.freebsd.org> <alpine.LSU.2.20.1703111841270.3498@anthias.pfeifer.com>

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> On 11 Mar, 2017, at 10:45, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Jan Beich wrote:
>>> https first for people that run 'make makesum'.
>> It was made MITM-friendly sometime ago.
>> 
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/324051
> 
> With that, isn't https pretty pointless?  I guess I'll leave
> things as are, then, for that mirror that offers both.
> 
> Another question on "https first", Tijl.  Some MASTER_SITEs
> have a dozen entries or more, and I always thought that the
> infrastructure picks one of these randomly every time.  In
> some tests I did today with two sites (one https, one http)
> it _always_ picked the first, confirming your point.  Or is
> that only the case for `make makesum`?
> 
> Gerald

That's activated by RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES.

# Adam


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