Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:05:44 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing unresponsive sites in bsd.sites.mk? Message-ID: <20050917090544.GB13930@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050916215916.GA15249@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20050916215916.GA15249@epia2.farid-hajji.net>
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On 16 Sep cpghost wrote: > While doing 'portupgrade -a', I regulary experience problems while > fetching KDE distfiles from the first host in the MASTER_SITE_KDE list > (in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk), ftp.scarlet.be. This site apparently > stalls connections (instead of dropping them?), which slows down a > portupgrade -a with KDE components considerably. Removing the first > two entries from the MASTER_SITE_KDE list which point to > ftp.scarlet.be is a work-around that solves this problem. > > Is there a more permanent way to drop this site without having to > manually edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup of the ports tree? Some > magic variable to set in /etc/rc.conf or so? Any idea? What I did was: put this site in my hosts file as 127.0.0.1 Works for me. ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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