Removing unresponsive sites in bsd.sites.mk?

Dick Hoogendijk dick at nagual.st
Sat Sep 17 02:05:46 PDT 2005


On 16 Sep cpghost wrote:
> While doing 'portupgrade -a', I regulary experience problems while
> fetching KDE distfiles from the first host in the MASTER_SITE_KDE list
> (in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk), ftp.scarlet.be. This site apparently
> stalls connections (instead of dropping them?), which slows down a
> portupgrade -a with KDE components considerably. Removing the first
> two entries from the MASTER_SITE_KDE list which point to
> ftp.scarlet.be is a work-around that solves this problem.
> 
> Is there a more permanent way to drop this site without having to
> manually edit bsd.sites.mk after every cvsup of the ports tree?  Some
> magic variable to set in /etc/rc.conf or so? Any idea?

What I did was: put this site in my hosts file as 127.0.0.1
Works for me. ;-)

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