MASTER_SITE quality of emulation@, freebsd-emulation@ ports

[Emanuel Haupt]

Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> Quoting Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt at FreeBSD.org> (from Mon, 28 Feb 2011  
> 10:15:41 +0100):
> 
> > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> >> Quoting Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt at FreeBSD.org> (from Sat, 26 Feb 2011
> >> 12:58:14 +0100):
> >>
> >> > The distilator [1] shows that roughly 97% by a total of109969 all
> >> > referenced distfiles fail to download. Resulting in countless
> >> > timeouts.
> >> >
> >> > Excerpt from the most recent run:
> >> >
> >> > Maintainer                      ok      bad     % bad
> >> > emulation at FreeBSD.org           1005    45696   97.85%
> >> > freebsd-emulation at FreeBSD.org   1691    61577   97.33%
> >>
> >> > Ideas?
> >>
> >> Would it help to change the order of the master site list? I assume
> >> that there are some which have everything.
> >
> > Unfortunately that wouldn't be much help to people who use
> > MASTER_SORT.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I believe the best way would be to cleanup Mk/bsd.sites.mk. In
> > particular MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX.
> 
> I plan to have a look at a more recent linux distribution for our  
> linux_base. If I get the time, and if it will be fedora based  
> (probably it will, as it may make the update a little bit more
> easy), this may mean the list will go back to what it was...
> 
> > ports-mgmt/distilator can help identifying those sites. For
> > instance:
> >
> > $ distilator /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10/
> >
> > Result:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/misc/linux_base-f10-distilator.log.gz
> >
> > A quick check would suggests to only keep:
> > $ zcat linux_base-f10-distilator.log.gz  | grep ^200 | awk '{print
> > $3}' \
> > 	| perl -e 'use URI; while(<>) { chomp(); $u=URI->new($_);
> > 	| print  
> > $u->host . "\n"; }' \
> > 	| sort | uniq
> >
> > archives.fedoraproject.org
> > ftp.quicknet.nl
> > ftp.rhd.ru
> > ftp.udl.es
> > mirror.steadfast.net
> >
> > ...but reducing MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX to those hosts shows that  
> > not even those
> > mirrors are consistent. Hence my prior suggestion to get a complete
> 
> :(
> 
> > set of all distfiles
> > needed by ports using MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX and mirror those on  
> > reliable mirrors.
> 
> Should be easy to do (if a mirror is available).
> 
> > I can assume that task if that's fine with emulation@ :-)
> 
> I am fine with this. I try to deprecate the linux*f[6789]* ports
> this week (I have to make up my mind if it will be one or two months
> of grace time). If you just spend the time to have a look at the fc4
> and f10 ones, everything should arrive at a sane situation after the  
> expiration date.

Ok, I think I'll look into it. I might wait until you're trough with
expiring the said ports.

Thanks for your feedback.

Emanuel