Distfiles and FTP Traffic-Shaping
Jean-Yves Lefort
jylefort at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 13 11:47:15 PST 2006
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:03:21 +0000
RW <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else having problems with their ISP Traffic-Shaping FTP in favour of
> HTTP? In my case the problem is quite severe and FTP distfile downloads are
> running below dial-up speed.
>
> If it's not just me, it would be nice to have a "PREFER_HTTP_SITES" option
> that brings any http sites to the the beginning of the site list in
> 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= ^https?://[-a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\.fr/ \
^https?:// \
://[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\.fr/
--
Jean-Yves Lefort
jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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