Strange behavior of ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL}: it trys only one mirror and then fallback to ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Jason.
You wrote 31 марта 2012 г., 22:20:38:

>> => svn-book-html-r4259.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
>> /usr/home/lev/distfiles/subversion17.
>> => Attempting to fetch
>> ftp://ftp.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/lev/svn-book-html-r4259.tar.bz2
>> fetch:
>> ftp://ftp.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/lev/svn-book-html-r4259.tar.bz2:
>> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> => Attempting to fetch
>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/subversion17/svn-book-html-r4259.tar.bz2
>> fetch:
>> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/subversion17/svn-book-html-r4259.tar.bz2:
>> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>> => port manually into /usr/home/lev/distfiles/subversion17 and try again.
>>
>>   So, ports try only last mirror in list (which is not updated yet)
>> and fallback not to next mirror (and next, and next, till it download
>> it from main site) but to ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}. Is it Ok?
>>
> I had the same issue when I took over daemontools. It needs time to
> propagate the mirror system.
  I understand about mirrors, question is WHY system trys only ONE
mirror?


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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>