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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:47:12 +0100
From:      Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
To:        RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Distfiles and FTP Traffic-Shaping
Message-ID:  <20060113204712.5403643c.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200601131703.37174.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
References:  <200601131703.37174.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:03:21 +0000
RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote:

> Is anyone else having problems with their ISP Traffic-Shaping FTP in favo=
ur of=20
> HTTP? In my case the problem is quite severe and FTP distfile downloads a=
re=20
> running below dial-up speed.
>=20
> If it's not just me, it would be nice to have a "PREFER_HTTP_SITES" optio=
n=20
> that brings any http sites to the the beginning of the site list in=20
> bsd.port.mk.

Or better, regex-based sort preferences. For instance, to prefer
French HTTP servers, then HTTP servers, then French servers, then
everything else:

MASTER_SITE_SORT=3D	^https?://[-a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\.fr/	\
			^https?://			\
			://[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\.fr/

--=20
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort@FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/

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