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

[Jason Helfman]

> Hello, Jason.
> You wrote 31 ìàðòà 2012 ã., 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?

Ah. I see now. That is odd. Haven't come across this issue yet.

-jgh