Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

[Jason]

I don't know about blacklisting, however you may want to look at the port
called fastest_sites:

/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/fastest_sites]$ cat pkg-descr 
Find the fastest mirror for every mirror list in bsd.sites.mk.

Output is suitable for inclusion into make.conf.

WWW:
http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/freebsd-ports-master-sites-sorting.html

-jgh

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:38:01AM -0600, Kirk Strauser thus spake:
>in ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, the list of SourceForge mirrors is defined by:
>
>.for mirror in heanet sunet iweb switch surfnet kent freefr \
>                 voxel jaist osdn nchc transact softlayer \
>                 internode biznetnetworks ufpr
>#               garr dfn ovh (redirect as of 2009-Sep-02)
>MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE+= \
>         http://${mirror}.dl.sourceforge.net/project/%SUBDIR%/
>.endfor
>.endif
>
>The problem is that the first mirror, heanet, is glacially slow every
>time I try to download from it. Transfers of 5-10KB/s aren't unheard
>of.  When I see that a large tarball is coming down from heanet, I'll
>routinely kill the transfer and manually download it.
>
>In my /etc/make.conf, I have:
>
>MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/
>
>That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which case
>the fetch goes back to using the list of mirrors, starting with heanet,
>which puts me back in the same predicament.
>
>I could obviously edit bsd.sites.mk to remove that entry, but updates
>could wipe out my changes.  Worse, if the SF layout changes and
>bsd.sites.mk is updated to reflect the new structure, a locally edited
>version wouldn't have those fixes.
>
>All that said, is there a better way to specify SourceForge mirrors? A
>blacklist would be ideal for this specific situation, but I'm open to ideas.
>
>--
>Kirk Strauser
>
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