Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:15:47 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES Message-ID: <200605292115.53214.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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Hello,
Still busy with updating Enemy Territory :) I decided to make use of the=20
MASTER_SITE_IDSOFTWARE variable exclusively now, since I'm getting fed up=20
with mirrors dying all the time. Now, due to the two files that are needed=
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being in two different directories, I figured I'd list the variable twice:
MASTER_SITES=3D ${MASTER_SITE_IDSOFTWARE:S|$|et/linux/|} \
${MASTER_SITE_IDSOFTWARE:S|$|et/}
This works, but there's two issues with it:
- When downloading the file in the second dir, it checks all servers
with the first dir first. This means at least 12 attempts are needed
in total.
- I'm not happy with the order of the servers listed in
MASTER_SITE_IDSOFTWARE. The first link is to a russian site, which is
quite slow (plus the link is dead anyway, I assume the .3 is wrong).
Fast servers being named first would make more sense to me.
Looking for a solution I found RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES. This will solve both=
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problems often: the chance that more than 4 attempts are needed to download=
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both files is only 25%, assuming all sites work. The chance that the russia=
n=20
site is hit in the first 4 attempts is 40%. It seems to me that this var is=
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not intended to be used inside port makefiles, it's probably meant=20
for /etc/make.conf. I feel that using it for my port would be a win.
So what are the authoritative comments on this?
Btw, speaking of MASTER_SITE_IDSOFTWARE, http://www.idstuff.org/ lists some=
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more that could be added to the list. Should I file a PR for them, or is=20
there a special procedure for updating master sites?
Cheers
Benjamin
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