cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk

[Pav Lucistnik]

Edwin Groothuis píše v st 22. 03. 2006 v 09:18 +1100:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49:45PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > Em 21/3/2006 13:44 Kris Kennaway escreveu:
> > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:40:26PM +0000, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > >> garga       2006-03-21 15:40:26 UTC
> > >>
> > >>   FreeBSD ports repository
> > >>
> > >>   Modified files:
> > >>     Mk                   bsd.sites.mk 
> > >>   Log:
> > >>   be able to define favourite sourceforge download site just defining
> > >>   
> > >>   MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_PREFERED=xxx
> > >>   
> > >>   on /etc/make.conf
> > >>   
> > >>   PR:             ports/94661
> > >>   Submitted by:   edwin
> > > 
> > > :(
> > > 
> > > We already have facilities for sorting.
> > 
> > Simon sent me an email after my commit, until it I didn't know
> > MASTER_SORT facility. Now i agree with simon, it's a redundancy.
> 
> I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage
> is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not
> documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution
> which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea
> how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even
> I use it now.

Not that I consider heanet slow, I'm regularly doing >1000 kB/s
transfers from them, but, would a better solution for everyone to
reorder Sourceforge mirrors to have a globally fast one first?

And while at it, can we please have first PHP not be brazilian?
That one is really slow outside South America.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Nazgul have poisoned your lembas.
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