Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:33:04 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports? Message-ID: <20091223213304.GA82061@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4B325579.5060106@strauser.com> References: <4B325579.5060106@strauser.com>
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Would "route add heanet.dl.sourceforge.net 127.0.0.1" help? On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:38:01AM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: > in ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, the list of SourceForge mirrors is defined by: > > .for mirror in heanet sunet iweb switch surfnet kent freefr \ > voxel jaist osdn nchc transact softlayer \ > internode biznetnetworks ufpr > # garr dfn ovh (redirect as of 2009-Sep-02) > MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE+= \ > http://${mirror}.dl.sourceforge.net/project/%SUBDIR%/ > .endfor > .endif > > The problem is that the first mirror, heanet, is glacially slow every > time I try to download from it. Transfers of 5-10KB/s aren't unheard > of. When I see that a large tarball is coming down from heanet, I'll > routinely kill the transfer and manually download it. > > In my /etc/make.conf, I have: > > MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/ > > That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case > the fetch goes back to using the list of mirrors, starting with heanet, > which puts me back in the same predicament. > > I could obviously edit bsd.sites.mk to remove that entry, but updates > could wipe out my changes. Worse, if the SF layout changes and > bsd.sites.mk is updated to reflect the new structure, a locally edited > version wouldn't have those fixes. > > All that said, is there a better way to specify SourceForge mirrors? A > blacklist would be ideal for this specific situation, but I'm open to ideas. > > -- > Kirk Strauser > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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